Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

jealousy

I do not say anything from jealousy. 5 views 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 other quotes from Washington Irving

Jealousy... is a mental cancer. 10 more sayings from B. C. Forbes

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. 3 sayings from Fulton J. Sheen

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. 13 other quotes from James M. Barrie

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. 2 views from J. M. Barrie

Jealousy is the fear of comparison. 7 views from Max Frisch

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. 11 thoughts from Salvador Dali

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. 10 quotes from Elizabeth Bowen

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. 5 views from Alexis Carrel

Jealousy is the grave of affection. 8 other views from Mary Baker Eddy

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. 5 other thoughts from Aphra Behn

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. 14 sayings from Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. 17 more views from John Dryden

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 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. 90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. 19 more thoughts from H. G. Wells

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 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. 15 other thoughts from William Penn

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. 52 thoughts 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

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously. 2 quotes from Lope de Vega

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. 18 wisdom & wit from Baruch Spinoza

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 wisdom & wit from William Shenstone

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. 52 quotes from George Eliot

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. 23 sayings 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

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 views from Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. 3 quotes from William Wycherley

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

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

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. 7 other sayings from Lawrence Durrell