Ambrose Bierce Envy Quotations

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.