William Shakespeare Quotes about Envy

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And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

William Shakespeare

Jealousy, Envy, Shapes

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.357

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

William Shakespeare

Children, Hands, Envy

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.84

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!

William Shakespeare

Men, Envy, World

William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VIII. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”, p.416

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Envy, Teeth

William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.101

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

William Shakespeare

Men, Envy, Dare

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.358

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.

William Shakespeare

Men, Envy, Age

William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22