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Edward Young Quotes About Envy

Quotes about: Envy
  • O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

    Edward Young (1721). “The Revenge: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants”, p.5
  • With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

    Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.32

Edward Young

  • Born: July 3, 1683
  • Died: April 5, 1765
  • Occupation: Poet
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