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