All WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes about “Envy”

“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 men's good, content with my harm.”
“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”
“Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.”
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.”
“And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.”
“Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.”
“My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.”
“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 honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!”
“No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.”
“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 spite and envy.”

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