Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Edmund Burke

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Aristotle

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.

Curt Goetz

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

Rajneesh

In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.

George Eliot

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

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

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.

Franz Grillparzer

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

Gladys Taber

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gina Barreca

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

Jack White

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.

Honore de Balzac

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

Honore de Balzac

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Honore de Balzac

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Honore de Balzac

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

Honore de Balzac

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Iris Murdoch

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

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

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 is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

H. G. Wells

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. L. Mencken

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Richard Le Gallienne

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.