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