Jealousy Quotes

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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. ~ Gary Allan

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. ~ Dennis Prager

They that envy others are their inferiors. ~ Traditional Proverbs

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. ~ Washington Irving Quotes

The knives of jealousy are honed on details. ~ Ruth Rendell

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~ William Penn

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

The enemy’s own punishment is his envy. ~ Indian Proverbs

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. ~ Joseph Addison

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~ Mark Twain Quotes

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. ~ Arthur Golden

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

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

More men die of jealousy than of cancer. ~ Joseph P. Kennedy

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. ~ Arthur Keith

Kiss the hand of your enemy if you cannot chop it off: Envy has no rest. ~ Arabian Proverbs

Jealousy… is a mental cancer. ~ B.C. Forbes

Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. ~ John Dryden

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers. ~ Norman Macdonald

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. ~ John Dryden

Jealousy is the grave of affection. ~ Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy is the fear of comparison. ~ Max Frisch

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

Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. ~ Arthur Lynch

Jealousy is nourished by doubt. ~ French Proverbs

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ~ Erica Jong

Jealousy is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage. ~ Arthyr Lynch

Jealousy is a kind of civil war in the soul, where judgment and imagination are at perpetual jars.  ~ William Penn

Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves. ~ Karl Kraus

Jealousy — that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. ~ Emil Cioran

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ~ George Washington

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason. ~ Clare Boothe Luce

If envy would burn, there would be no use for wood. ~ Yugoslavian Proverbs

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~ Danish Proverbs

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, but only death the jealous eyes can close. ~ William Wycherley

From the well of envy, only a fool drinks the water. ~ Nigerien Proverbs

Envy slays itself by its own arrows. ~ Author Unknown

Envy shoots at others and wounds itself. ~ English Proverbs

Envy sees the sea but not the rocks. ~ Russian Proverbs

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~ Honore de Balzac Quotes

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. ~ Harold Coffin

Envy is ignorance. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. ~ William Hazlitt

Envy eats nothing but its own heart. ~ German Proverbs

Envy does not enter empty houses. ~ Danish Proverbs

Envy and jealousy, twin sisters, come with the cunning of the fox to steal away our peace and happiness. ~ Nicias Ballard Cooksey

Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. ~ Mary Schmich

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. ~ Milan Kundera

Compete, don’t envy. ~ Moroccan Proverbs

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~ Antisthenes

After honor and state follow envy and hate. ~ Dutch Proverbs

A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~ Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko

A neighbor’s eye is full of jealousy. ~ Danish Proverbs

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