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