Famous Quotes

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

George Eliot on Jealousy

More quotes about Jealousy

• "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"

  Bob Marley on Jealousy

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

  Robert A. Heinlein on Jealousy

• "I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do."

  Heidi Klum on Jealousy

• "Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy."

  Aristotle on Jealousy

• "Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."

  Johannes Brahms on Jealousy

More quotes by George Eliot

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

• "You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

• "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."

• "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

• "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."