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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Envy

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
—Antisthenes

Envy, like merit, doth its shade pursue.
—Antisthenes

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

A rustinesse consumeth iron: So envie consumeth the envious man.
—Anthonie Fletcher (Certain Very Proper and Profitable Similes, 1595)

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
—Saint Chrysostom

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impatience, folds its arms in despair.
—Jeremy Collier

Pity and envy, like oil and vinegar, assimilate not.
—C. C. Colton

Envy excels in exciting jealousy, as a rat draws the crocodile from its hole.
—Victor Hugo

Envy, like a flame soars upward.
—Lyvy

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
—J. Petit-Senn