Jealousy Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 3
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Mary Baker Eddy
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Joseph Addison
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
Lord Byron
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
Robert Bringle
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is not the enemy but only another way we learn. We learn who we are and not to judge. We learn that some people have more than we do. We can’t always be who we strive to be.
Jillian Jenkins
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty–jealousy.
Lord Lytton
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women’s husbands.
Oscar Wilde
A man’s jealousy is a social institution; a woman’s prostitution is an instinct.
Karl Kraus
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.
Robert Burton
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Samuel Johnson
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
F. Sagan
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
Anonymous
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
Horace
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
Helen Rowland
Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart.
Astrid Alauda
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone
Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.
Elizabeth O’Connor
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
Emma Goldman
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.
Abraham Lincoln
Jealousy is a crutch.
C. Astrid Weber
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