jealousy
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
15 more quotes from William Penn
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
52 more sayings from George Eliot
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
6 more 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 quotes from William Shenstone
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
52 thoughts from George Eliot
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
2 other quotes from Lope de Vega
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
18 thoughts from Baruch Spinoza
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
9 more quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
3 more thoughts from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
5 more thoughts from Antisthenes
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
9 thoughts from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
3 other views from William Wycherley
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
23 other sayings 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 views 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 quotes from Lawrence Durrell
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 quotes from Anna Held
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
8 views 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 views from Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
3 other sayings from Fulton J. Sheen
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 more views from Max Frisch
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
10 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from James M. Barrie
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
2 other sayings from J. M. Barrie
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
5 quotes from Alexis Carrel
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
10 quotes from Elizabeth Bowen
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
14 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Aphra Behn
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
17 sayings from John Dryden
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
19 wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
90 quotes 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 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld