Jealousy Quotes

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

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.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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.

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.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

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.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

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.

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

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.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

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.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.