Famous Quotes
- Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
- Gene Tierney on Jealousy
- Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Jealousy
- Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
- Paul Eldridge on Jealousy
- Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
- Havelock Ellis on Jealousy
- Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
- B. C. Forbes on Jealousy
- Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
- Bob Marley on Jealousy
- Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
- Alexis Carrel on Jealousy
- 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.
- Robert A. Heinlein on Jealousy
- Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
- Aaron Carter on Jealousy
- 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.
- Lord Byron on Jealousy
- 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.
- George Byron on Jealousy
- 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.
- Van Wyck Brooks on Jealousy
- Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
- Germaine Greer on Jealousy
- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells on Jealousy
- More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
- Joseph P. Kennedy on Jealousy
- 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.
- Conrad Veidt on Jealousy
- My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
- Rodney Dangerfield on Jealousy
- 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.
- David Seabury on Jealousy
- Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
- Oliver Stone on Jealousy
- 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.
- James Beattie on Jealousy
- Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
- Aphra Behn on 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.
- Adrian Lyne on Jealousy
- On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
- Henry Lawson on Jealousy
- Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
- Arthur Golden on Jealousy
- 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.
- Summer Altice on Jealousy
- People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
- Kristin Bauer Van Straten on Jealousy
- Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
- Mary Douglas on Jealousy
- 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.
- George Orwell on Jealousy
- That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
- James M. Barrie on Jealousy
- That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
- J. M. Barrie on Jealousy
- 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.
- Martina Hingis on Jealousy
- That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.
- Clyde Tombaugh on Jealousy
- The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
- Baltasar Gracian on Jealousy
- The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater on Jealousy
- The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn on Jealousy
- The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
- Richard Perle on Jealousy
- The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
- Ruth Rendell on Jealousy
- The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on Jealousy
- The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
- Dorothy Corkville Briggs on Jealousy
- The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali on 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.
- George Eliot on Jealousy
- There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
- Washington Irving on Jealousy
- There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
- Lope De Vega on Jealousy
- 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.
- Richard Le Gallienne on Jealousy
- There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
- Chris O'Dowd on Jealousy
- 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.
- Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
- Baruch Spinoza on Jealousy
- 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.
- Johannes Brahms on Jealousy
- To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
- Francoise Sagan on Jealousy
- 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.
- Ricky Williams on Jealousy
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