jealousy
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
23 sayings from Helen Rowland
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
5 other wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
9 thoughts from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
3 more views from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
16 more wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
4 other wisdom & wit from George Meredith
I do not say anything from jealousy.
5 other quotes from Anna Held
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
18 quotes 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 views from Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
3 sayings 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 more views from James M. Barrie
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
2 other quotes from J. M. Barrie
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 more quotes from Max Frisch
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
10 other quotes from B. C. Forbes
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 more quotes from Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
8 more 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 quotes from Aphra Behn
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
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
17 more quotes 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 more sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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 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 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
15 other quotes from William Penn
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
12 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
52 more views from George Eliot
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
2 views from Lope de Vega
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
18 more wisdom & wit from Baruch Spinoza
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
52 thoughts from George Eliot