Jealousy Quotes
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Jealousy is an emotion experienced by one who perceives that another person is giving something that s/he wants (typically attention, love, or affection) to a third party. For example, a child will likely become jealous when her parent gives sweets to a sibling but not to her. On an interpersonal level it is a felt threat from an outsider to an important relationship in which one is involved and produces feelings of anger and fear. It is a state of fear, suspicion or envy over one's possessions. These quotes can be used to show the negative impact of jealousy on the mindsets of people. These can be quoted to motivate people to stay away from such emotions because they do not make a person more successful and on the other hand hamper their performance.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Bible
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth E. Bowen
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Bible
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Dr Samuel Johnson
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
William Shakespeare
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Bible
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
Horace
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
Emma Goldman
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
Antisthenes
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
Robert Bringle
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy
Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
William Shakespeare
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
Henry Glassford Bell
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
Lord Byron
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.
Robert Greene
Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.
Lord Lytton
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
William Shakespeare
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
John Milton
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
Edward Moore
Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!
Hannah More
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Alexander Pope
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
William Shakespeare
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
Edmund Spenser
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
William Shakespeare
But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no more, But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, Corroding every thought, and blasting all Love's paradise.
James Thomson (1)
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
The ear of jealousy heareth all things.
Bible
Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.
William Blake
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Bible
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth E. Bowen
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Bible
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Dr Samuel Johnson
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
William Shakespeare
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