Francis Bacon Envy Quotations

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

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.