- Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
- Ambrose Bierce on Jealousy
- Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
- Emile M. Cioran on Jealousy
- Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Jealousy
- Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
- Karl Kraus on Jealousy
- Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong on Jealousy
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
- Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Jealousy
- Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol on Jealousy
- Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
- George Meredith on Jealousy
- Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
- George Eliot on Jealousy
- Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
- Elizabeth Bowen on Jealousy
- Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on Jealousy
- Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
- Max Frisch on Jealousy
- Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
- William Shenstone on Jealousy
- Jealousy is the grave of affection.
- Mary Baker Eddy on Jealousy
- Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden on Jealousy
- Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
- Helen Rowland on Jealousy
- Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
- Fulton J. Sheen on Jealousy
- 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
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