Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Envy

• ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Envy, Emulation, Capacity

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.75, e-artnow

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Trust, Envy, Rich

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.201, University of Georgia Press

• 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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Pride, Envy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Envy, Malice

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, University of Georgia Press

• Congratulations is the civility of envy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Congratulations, Envy

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