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Envy: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Know you not, master, to some kind of men Their graces serve them but as enemies ? No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!— A. Y. ii. 3.

Lean-fac'd Envy in her loathsome cave.— H. VI. PT. II. iii. 2.

Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, envy. How eagerly ye follow my disgraces, As if it fed ye! and how sleek and wanton Ye appear in every thing may bring my ruin! Follow your envious courses, men of malice; You have Christian warrant for them, and, no doubt, In time will find their fit rewards.— H. VIII. iii. 2.

My heart laments, that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.— J. C. ii. 3.

Men, that make Envy, and crooked malice, nourishment, Dare bite the best.— H. VIII. v. 2.