"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
― George Eliot
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Jealousy
― George Eliot
More From George Eliot
- "The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."
- "I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."
- "In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."
More In Jealousy
- "On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England’s account."― Henry Lawson
- "Jealousy is the fear of comparison."― Max Frisch
- "I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do."― Heidi Klum