Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

jealousy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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

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

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

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 more wisdom & wit from George Washington

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

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

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 - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. 18 more sayings from Emile M. Cioran

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

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. 11 wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali

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

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

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

Jealousy is the fear of comparison. 7 more quotes from Max Frisch

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. 10 wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. 5 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 other quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. 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 more thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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