Character Quote by Ovid

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

— Ovid

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

— Honore de Balzac

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

— Francis Beaumont

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

— Anonymous

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

— Finley Peter Dunne

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her…

— Alexander Pope

Envy is an evil dart aimed by someone's jealous heart.

— Natalie Ann Duncan

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

— Angus Wilson

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

— Ouida

O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

— William Shakespeare

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

— John Wesley