jealousy
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
14 other views from Robert A. Heinlein
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 grave of affection.
8 quotes from Mary Baker Eddy
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
17 views from John Dryden
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
90 other thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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 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 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
90 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
15 quotes 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 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
6 wisdom & wit from Johann Kaspar Lavater
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 sayings from Lope de Vega
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
12 quotes from Gene Tierney
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
8 quotes from William Shenstone
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
3 more thoughts from William Wycherley
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
5 other wisdom & wit from Antisthenes
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
23 other views from Helen Rowland
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
9 views from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
9 sayings from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
3 sayings from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
7 more thoughts 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 thoughts from George Washington
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
16 thoughts from Havelock Ellis
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
4 sayings from George Meredith
I do not say anything from jealousy.
5 more views from Anna Held
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 quotes from Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
8 more quotes from Karl Kraus
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
13 quotes from James M. Barrie
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
2 quotes from J. M. Barrie
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
10 quotes from B. C. Forbes
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
3 quotes from Fulton J. Sheen
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 more quotes from Max Frisch
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
11 sayings from Salvador Dali
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 more views from Elizabeth Bowen