jealousy
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
90 more 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 contains more of self-love than of love.
90 other thoughts 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 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
15 more views from William Penn
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
52 other views from George Eliot
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
6 thoughts from Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
12 sayings from Gene Tierney
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
8 other thoughts from William Shenstone
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
52 more quotes from George Eliot
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
9 more quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
9 wisdom & wit from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
3 quotes from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
5 more quotes from Antisthenes
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
3 more views from William Wycherley
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
23 other quotes from Helen Rowland
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
4 thoughts from George Meredith
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
7 more quotes 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 views from George Washington
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
16 other wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
I do not say anything from jealousy.
5 wisdom & wit from Anna Held
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 quotes from Karl Kraus
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
18 more quotes from Washington Irving
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
10 quotes from B. C. Forbes
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
3 other thoughts from Fulton J. Sheen
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
11 more thoughts 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
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 more sayings from Max Frisch
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
10 other quotes from Elizabeth Bowen
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
5 more wisdom & wit from Alexis Carrel
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
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 quotes from John Dryden