Envious

Famous quotes containing the word envious:

    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.)

    Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show,
    Of touch or marble; nor canst boast a row
    Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold;
    Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told,
    Or stair, or courts; but stand’st an ancient pile,
    Ben Jonson (1572–1637)