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Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves:
And therefore are they very dangerous.
Julius Cæsar (1599)
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Othello (1603)
No metal can,
No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness
Of thy sharp envy.
But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they are jealous.
Othello (1603)
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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.
We are gentlemen,
That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes
Envy the great, nor do the low despise.
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
In seeking tales and informations
Against this man, whose honesty the devil
And his disciples only envy at,
Ye blew the fire that burns ye.
Henry VIII (1613)
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.
If I shall be condemn'd
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake, I tell you,
'Tis rigour, and not law.
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,
As, I confess, it is my nature's plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not.
Othello (1603)
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious.
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
The general's disdain'd
By him one step below; he by the next;
That next by him beneath; so every step,
Exampled by the first pace that is sick
Of his superior, grows to an envious fever
Of pale and bloodless emulation.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)