Jealousy Quotes

After honor and state follow envy and hate.~ Dutch Proverb
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~ George Eliot
A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~ Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~ Antisthenes
Compete, don’t envy.~ Moroccan Proverb
Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.~ Mary Schmich
Envy does not enter empty houses.~ Danish Proverb
Envy eats nothing but its own heart.~ German Proverb
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself xcluded.~ William Hazlitt
Envy is ignorance. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. ~ Harold Coffin
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~ Honore de Balzac
Envy sees the sea but not the rocks.~ Russian Proverb
Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.~ English Proverb
Envy slays itself by its own arrows. ~ Author Unknown
From the well of envy, only a fool drinks the water.~ Nigerien Proverb
He that is not jealous is not in love. ~ St. Augustine
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~ Danish Proverb
If envy would burn, there would be no use for wood.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
In jealousy there is more self-love than love. ~ François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~ Lawrence Durrell
Jealousy… is a mental cancer. ~ B.C. Forbes
Jealousy and love are sisters. ~ Russian Proverb
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. ~ Maya Angelou
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. ~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~ Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. ~ A.R. Orage
Kiss the hand of your enemy if you cannot chop it off: Envy has no rest.~ Arabian Proverb
Love is too rare to be lost on jealousy.~ Mexican Proverb
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~ Josh Billings
Never love unless you can. Bear with all the faults of man: Men will sometimes jealous be,Though but little cause they see.~ Thomas Campion
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~ Mark Twain
The enemy’s own punishment is his envy.~ Indian Proverb
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~ William Penn
They that envy others are their inferiors.~ Traditional Proverb