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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Envy |
| Base envy withers at another’s joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. Thomson.—Spring. | 1 |
| Which merit and success pursues with hate, And damns the worth it cannot imitate. Churchill.—The Rosciad, Line 129. | 2 |
| That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Swift.—To Bolingbroke, 19th Decr. 1719. | 3 |
| How vain is worth! how short is glory’s date! Churchill.—Epi. to Hogarth, Line 48. | 4 |
| Thy danger chiefly lies in acting well; No crime’s so great as daring to excel. Churchill.—Epi. to Hogarth, Line 51. | 5 |
| One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love. Gay.—Fable XLV. Line 29. | 6 |
| Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. Pope.—On Criticism, Line 266, Part II. | 7 |
| In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow. Gay.—Fable XI. Line 1. | 8 |
| To all apparent beauties blind, Each blemish strikes an envious mind. Gay.—Fable XI. Line 37. | 9 |
| Envy, eldest born of hell, embru’d Her hands in blood, and taught the sons of men To make a death which nature never made, And God abhorr’d. Dr. Porteus.—Poem on Death. | 10 |
| There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy! Sheridan.—The Critic, Act I. Scene 1. | 11 |
| Though every friend be fled; Lo! envy waits, that lover of the dead. Tickell.—On the death of Cadogan. | 12 |
| And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys; You’ll in your girls again be courted; And I’ll go wooing in my boys. J. G. Cooper.—Winifreda. (“Away! Let nought to love displeasing.”) | 13 |
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