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Deep Jealousy Quotes

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

George Washington

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

William Hazlitt

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Hesiod

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes

More Jealousy Quotes

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Samuel Richardson

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Emile M. Cioran

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Baltasar Gracian

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Oliver Stone

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Henry Ellis

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Alexis Carrel

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Tacitus

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jean Baudrillard

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Heinrich Heine

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Charles Olson

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Emile M. Cioran

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Clare Boothe Luce

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Bainbridge Colby

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

Jerry Costello

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Joseph Epstein

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

William Wycherley

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

Emanuel Celler

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

James M. Barrie

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

George Bancroft

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Abraham Cahan

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Heraclitus

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

Dennis Prager

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Henry Fielding

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Rabindranath Tagore

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

John Berger

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Joseph Epstein

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

William Penn

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