jealousy
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 more sayings from Aphra Behn
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
8 quotes from Mary Baker Eddy
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
17 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
19 other thoughts 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 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
15 sayings from William Penn
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
52 more quotes from George Eliot
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
6 sayings from Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
52 other wisdom & wit from George Eliot
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
2 quotes from Lope de Vega
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
12 views from Gene Tierney
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
8 more sayings from William Shenstone
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
3 more views from William Wycherley
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
5 other sayings from Antisthenes
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
23 more quotes from Helen Rowland
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
9 other 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 more thoughts from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
7 views 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 quotes from George Washington
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
16 views 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 more quotes from Anna Held
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
18 quotes from Washington Irving
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
18 more thoughts from Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
8 thoughts from Karl Kraus
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 sayings from J. M. Barrie
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
10 thoughts from B. C. Forbes
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
3 sayings from Fulton J. Sheen
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 more wisdom & wit from Max Frisch
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
11 other quotes from Salvador Dali
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 other views from Elizabeth Bowen