George Eliot Quotes About Jealousy

• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Jealousy, Anger

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)

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

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

• 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

  Jealousy, Passion, Fire

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

• One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

  George Eliot

  Jealousy, Pain, Eye

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.120

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