Jealousy Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 4
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Anonymous
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
Dennis Prager
The word “jealousy” is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona’s love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.
Anthony Storr
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Mark Twain
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
Danish Proverb
The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.
Elsa Maxwell
Don’t hold grudges; it’s pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
Anonymous
Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.
Anonymous
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they’re jealous. ‘Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
William Shakespeare
Guilt is always jealous.
John Ray
If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.
Sei Shonagon
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
Antisthenes
Envy is ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
Ovid
Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.
Spanish Proverb
Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
H. L. Mencken
Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus
Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
Breanna S
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It`s the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
Joni Mitchell
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard
The ‘Green-Eyed Monster’ causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
Minna Antrim
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Joseph P. Kennedy
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein
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