What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
19 other quotes from H. G. Wells
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
90 other wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
15 thoughts from William Penn
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
18 other thoughts from Baruch Spinoza
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
2 quotes from Lope de Vega
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
6 quotes from Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
12 other sayings from Gene Tierney
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
8 sayings from William Shenstone
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
52 other wisdom & wit from George Eliot
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
9 views from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
3 sayings from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
23 quotes from Helen Rowland
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
3 wisdom & wit from William Wycherley
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
9 other wisdom & wit from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
4 quotes from George Meredith
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
16 more wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
30 other thoughts from George Washington
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
7 thoughts from Lawrence Durrell
I do not say anything from jealousy.
5 quotes from Anna Held
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
8 other quotes from Karl Kraus
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
18 quotes from Washington Irving
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
18 wisdom & wit from Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 views from Max Frisch
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
3 more views from Fulton J. Sheen
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
10 views from B. C. Forbes
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
11 more wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
13 other wisdom & wit from James M. Barrie
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
2 other views from J. M. Barrie
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
10 views from Elizabeth Bowen
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
5 quotes from Alexis Carrel
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
5 sayings from Aphra Behn
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
8 other sayings from Mary Baker Eddy
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
14 views from Robert A. Heinlein
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
17 more quotes from John Dryden