Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

jealousy

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.