Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.

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

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

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

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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

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

All always carry swords at their sides, because they do not trust one another and because a ruse is a commonplace thing among them. If one succeeds in acquiring an estate, immediately his brother or friend becomes envious and attempts either to kill him or rob him.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

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

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

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

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.