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

jealousy

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. 18 thoughts from Washington Irving

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. 18 other quotes from Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. 8 thoughts from Karl Kraus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jealousy is the grave of affection. 8 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 views from Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. 17 quotes from John Dryden

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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from William Penn

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. 8 more views from William Shenstone

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. 52 more quotes from George Eliot

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

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. 12 sayings from Gene Tierney

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. 18 more quotes from Baruch Spinoza

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

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. 6 thoughts from Johann Kaspar Lavater

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. 9 thoughts from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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 more sayings from William Wycherley

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. 9 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. 3 quotes from Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. 23 thoughts from Helen Rowland

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 quotes from George Washington

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. 16 quotes from Havelock Ellis

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. 4 quotes from George Meredith

I do not say anything from jealousy. 5 quotes from Anna Held