jealousy
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
23 quotes from Helen Rowland
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 not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
9 wisdom & wit from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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 quotes from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
7 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from George Washington
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
16 other quotes from Havelock Ellis
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
4 wisdom & wit from George Meredith
I do not say anything from jealousy.
5 more wisdom & wit from Anna Held
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
18 thoughts from Washington Irving
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
8 views from Karl Kraus
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
18 other quotes from Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
3 quotes from Fulton J. Sheen
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 views 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
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 thoughts from Max Frisch
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
10 more quotes from B. C. Forbes
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
5 more views from Alexis Carrel
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
10 thoughts from Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
8 other wisdom & wit from Mary Baker Eddy
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
5 sayings from Aphra Behn
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
14 views from Robert A. Heinlein
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
17 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 other 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 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
15 more wisdom & wit from William Penn
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 quotes from William Shenstone
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
6 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
52 quotes from George Eliot