Jealousy Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

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.

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

I do not say anything from jealousy.

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

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.

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.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

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.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.