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Envy Quotes by William Shakespeare
- I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other…
- Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
- This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general…
- We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous…
- No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
- This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature…
- Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
More Envy Quotes
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in… — Francis Beaumont
- Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Berger
- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus
- He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus
- Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. — Eubie Blake
- God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. — Helen Gurley Brown