Jealousy Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 6
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
Hesiod
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
John Dryden
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
Ludovico Ariosto
Always remember, Peggy, it’s matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Clare Boothe Luce
People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn’t going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it’s all about? Jealousy.
Summer Altice
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
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
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
William Hazlitt
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
Arthur Golden
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
Ann Radcliffe
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Art is a jealous mistress.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare
I do not say anything from jealousy.
Anna Held
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus’ brow, The amber sweet of love is turn’d to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.
Robert Greene
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
William Wycherley
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
Richard Perle
Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don’t know, I’ve always been intrigued by those emotions.
Adrian Lyne
But the dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Sir Max Beerbohm
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.
Dalai Lama
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
Pete Fountain
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
James Beattie
Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
Sir Walter Scott
For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge. He will accept no compensation, and refuses a bribe no matter how great.
Bible
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms
It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
Rupert Everett
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Mary Douglas
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love. Fair lady, will you any?
John Lyly
Back then I didn’t think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn’t the life for me!
Sylvia Kristel
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