Christianity Quote by Saint John Chrysostom

“As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].”

— John Chrysostom

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

— Ovid

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

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

— German Proverb

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

— Ovid

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

— Anonymous

Envy is human nature.

— Monica Bellucci

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the…

— Socrates

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

— John Donne

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

— Herodotus

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

— Martin Amis

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

— Angus Wilson