"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
― William Shenstone
Topic(s):
Jealousy
More From William Shenstone
- "Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."
- "The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
- "The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical."
More In Jealousy
- "Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."― Baruch Spinoza
- "Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."― Germaine Greer
- "I’m drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it’s the story that’s going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy."― Ryan Kwanten