Jealousy Quotes

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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.

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!

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

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.

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

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

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?

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

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.

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.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

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

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.