Jealousy famous quotes
07-10-2025
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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 -
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
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 -
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
-- Aeschylus -
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
-- Alfred Richard Orage -
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
-- Anne Lamott -
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
-- Aphra Behn -
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.
-- Aristotle -
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. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch -
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
-- Arthur Golden -
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
-- Charley Reese -
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
-- Cheryl Tiegs -
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
-- Chrissie Hynde -
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 -
The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.
-- Curt Goetz -
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 -
A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder.
-- Diana Trilling -
Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
-- Dolores Hitchens -
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.
-- Elinor Glyn -
The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
-- Eliza Haywood -
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.
-- Francis Marion Crawford -
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
-- Francoise Sagan -
A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
-- Francoise Sagan -
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
-- Gene Tierney -
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
-- George Eliot -
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
-- George Eliot -
One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
-- George Eliot -
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 -
The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
-- George Sand -
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 -
Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.
-- Gladys Taber -
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.
-- Gosho Aoyama -
When you strengthen your self-esteem, there is no room for jealousy.
-- Harold H. Bloomfield -
Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.
-- Helen Nielsen -
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
-- Helen Rowland -
When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.
-- Henry Fielding -
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.
-- Henry Fielding -
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 -
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
-- Honore de Balzac -
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
-- Iris Murdoch -
He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.
-- Jacinto Benavente -
The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.
-- Jack White -
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
-- James M. Barrie -
Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
-- Jan Neruda -
Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!
-- Jean Racine -
I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.
-- Jennifer James -
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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 -
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .
-- John Milton -
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
-- Joseph P. Kennedy -
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings -
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.
-- Jude Law -
For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
-- Kamila Shamsie -
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.
-- Karl Kraus -
I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
-- Keira Knightley -
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
-- Larry Rivers -
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
-- Lionel Shriver -
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
-- Lope de Vega -
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
-- Lord Byron -
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
-- Lord Byron -
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
-- Ludovico Ariosto -
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
-- Madeleine de Scudery -
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...
-- Marguerite de Navarre -
There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.
-- Martha Albrand -
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 -
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 -
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
-- Mary Schmich
