“ How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fasting in his wantonness! ”
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (1609). copy citation
Author | William Shakespeare |
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Source | Troilus and Cressida |
Topic | pride eating |
Date | 1609 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Written between 1600 and 1602 |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1790/pg1790-images.html |
Context
“Now shall we see to-morrow- An act that very chance doth throw upon him- Ajax renown'd. O heavens, what some men do, While some men leave to do! How some men creep in skittish Fortune's-hall, Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes! How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fasting in his wantonness! To see these Grecian lords!-why, even already They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder, As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast, And great Troy shrinking. ACHILLES. I do believe it; for they pass'd by me As misers do by beggars-neither gave to me Good word nor look.”
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