#lousy

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#against #alone #feeling #more #smiling

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning. ↗

— Alton Brown

#delegate #doing #going #harder #having

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ↗

— Lord Byron

#because #friends #generally #indeed #jealousy

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#far #far less #jealousy #less #love

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! ↗

— Marie de France

#false #friendship #how #jealous #last

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal. ↗

— Barney Frank

#good #good meal #i #i think #judge

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#coals #cruel #fire #grave #thereof

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#about #accepted #acting #businessman #degree

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

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#aversion #jumble #ostensible #secret #worship