#lousy

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ↗

— Antisthenes

#away #consumed #eaten #envious #iron

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. ↗

— Ludovico Ariosto

#deliver #frenzy #good #good lord #heresy

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#bride #corpse #ever #good #good wishes

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#boy #boy scout #campfire #encourage #faithful

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#against #alone #feeling #more #smiling

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

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

#breeding #comes #compare #comparisons #fan

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

#everywhere #feed #find #magnanimous #more

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