Jealousy Quotes

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

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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.

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.

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.

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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.

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.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.