#jealousy

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#jealousy

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#against #alone #feeling #more #smiling

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

#breeding #comes #compare #comparisons #fan

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#everywhere #feed #find #magnanimous #more

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#catches #down #first #humbled #jealousy

Jealousy... is a mental cancer. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#cancer #mental

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ear #evil #gives #good #goodness

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

#another #credit #due #explorer #fortunate

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#am #because #careers #competition #creative

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ↗

— Erica Jong

#fun #had #think #you