Envious

Famous quotes containing the word envious:

“For beauty, wit,
High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“For not many men, the proverb saith,
Can love a friend whom fortune prospereth
Unenvying; and about the envious brain
Cold poison clings, and doubles all the pain
Life brings him.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)