"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
― George Eliot
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Jealousy
― George Eliot
More From George Eliot
- "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
- "But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
- "A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."
More In Jealousy
- "IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not."― Lawrence Wright
- "Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."― Baruch Spinoza
- "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