Charles Churchill Quotes

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Envy bestrides praise.

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

Resentment is at work when one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses if only the hated one might also come to harm. Many of those who attack capitalism know very well that their situation under any other economic system will be less favorable.