Francis Bacon Quotes About Envy

Quotes about: Envy

• Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Self, Envy

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.457

• Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Envy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

• None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Envy, Affection, Has Beens

• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Men, Evil

• Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Envy, Affection

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.522

• He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

  Francis Bacon

  Envy, Cases

  Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.22

• It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

  Francis Bacon

  Holiday, Envy, Well Said

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