Chapter ENGLISHMEN to ENVY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

ENGLISHMEN to ENVY

ENGLISHMEN.—It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act I. Scene 2. (Falstaff to the Chief Justice.)

Aye—give these fellows a good thing, and they never know when to have done with it.

Sheridan.—The Critic, Act II. Scene 1.

I think by some odd gimmers or device,
Their arms are set like clocks, still to strike on;
Else ne’er could they hold out so as they do.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part I. Act I. Scene 2. (Reignier to Alençon.)

A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

Shakespeare.—Tempest, Act II. Scene 2. (Trinculo.)

ENJOYMENT.—A day of such serene enjoyment spent,
Were worth an age of splendid discontent

James Montgomery.—Greenland.

ENMITY.—’Tis death to me to be at enmity;
I hate it, and desire all good men’s love.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act II. Scene I. (When Duke of Gloster.)

ENMITY.—I do not know that Englishman alive,
With whom my soul is any jot at odds,
More than the infant that is born to night;
I thank my God for my humility.

Shakespeare.—Ibid. (Richard when Duke of Gloster.)

ENOUGH.—Enough to press a royal merchant down.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Scene 1. (The Duke of Gloster.)

Enough to weigh a nation down.

Churchill.—The Duellist, Book I. Line 52.

Enough, and more than enough.

Dr. Parr.—In his Spital Sermon; and Horace to his patron Mæcenas.

We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to store;
Enough requires too much; too much craves more.

Quarles.—Book II. No. II. Line 7.

ENVY.—Base envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

Thomson.—Spring.

One common fate we both must prove;
You die with envy, I with love.

Gay.—Fable XLV. Line 29.