JEALOUSY QUOTES
quotations about jealousy
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Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss
Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.
ARTHYR LYNCH, Moods of Life
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
ELBERT HUBBARD, The American Bible
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
Envy and jealousy, twin sisters, come with the cunning of the fox to steal away our peace and happiness.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY, Helps to Happiness
Jealousy is a kind of civil war in the soul, where judgment and imagination are at perpetual jars. This civil dissension in the mind, like that of the body politic, commits great disorders, and lays all waste. Nothing stands safe in its way; Nature, interest, religion, must yield to its fury. It violates contracts, dissolves society, breaks wedlock, betrays friends and neighbours. No body is good, and every one is either doing or designing them a mischief. It has a venom that more or less rankles wherever it bites: And as it reports fancies or facts, so it disturbs its own house as often as other folks.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
APHRA BEHN, The History of Agnes de Castro
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
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