"Envie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Artois, en Champagne, en Argonne, ils ont arrt l'envahisseur qui n'a pu faire un pas de plus en avant sur la terre sacre qui les recouvre. Quelques-uns les pleurent, tous les admirent, plus d'un les envie. Ecoutons les. Tendons l'oreille: ils parlent. Penchons-nous sur cette terre bouleverse par la mitraille o beaucoup d'entre eux dorment dans leurs vtements ensanglants. Agenouillons-nous dans le cimetire, ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... treacherie, like a most trusty Lover, I call'd him now to answer; if thou bee'st, As thou art spoken, great and vertuous, The true descider of all injuries, Say, 'Fight againe,' and thou shalt see me, Theseus, Doe such a Iustice, thou thy selfe wilt envie. Then take my life; ...
— The Two Noble Kinsmen • William Shakespeare and John Fletcher [Apocrypha]
... hug you? 'tis so [false], that wert thou worthy thou shouldst receive a death, a glorious death from me: but thou shalt understand thy lies, for shouldst thou praise me into Heaven, and there leave me inthron'd, I would despise thee though as much as now, which is as much as dust because I see thy envie. ...
— A King, and No King • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... that none but wee Are able to present this tragedie, Nor out of envie at the grace of late It did receive, nor yet to derogate From their deserts, who give out boldly that 5 They move with equall feet on the same flat; Neither for all, nor any of such ends, We offer it, gracious and noble friends, To your review; wee, farre from emulation, And (charitably judge) ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman
... any one. The marquis has now, I am glad to say, subsided into a very quiet, placable, and peacemaking old gentleman; but at the time I speak of he was much blamed for his duel with F—, a young man of nineteen. While dining at a cafe he exclaimed, "J'ai envie de tuer quelq'un," and rushed out into the street and to the theatres, trying to pick a quarrel; but he was so well known that no one was found willing to encounter him. At last, at the Theatre de la Porte St. ...
— Reminiscences of Captain Gronow • Rees Howell Gronow |
