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Quotes about Jealousy


In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Lawrence Durrell

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

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

George Bible

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.

George Bible

The ear of jealousy heareth all things.

George Bible

Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.

William Blake

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth E. Bowen

Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

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 only a good thing when your jealous of me.

Breanna S

No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, 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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

--fulton J. Sheen

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Heinlein

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.g. Wells

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

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