Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William James

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

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.

William Graham Sumner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

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

Joseph Addison

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

John Adams

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

Friedrich Schiller

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Luc de Clapiers

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

Lord Byron

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Ellen Glasgow

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

Mike Nichols

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Ovid

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Paul Eldridge

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

Patrick Henry

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

Keira Knightley

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.

Mary Schmich

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Larry Rivers

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Margaret Atwood

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Mary Douglas

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?

Pete Fountain

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Rachel Field

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

Josh Billings

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Karl Kraus

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Karl Kraus

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jealousy's eyes are green.

John Gay

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

Joan Didion

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

Emma Goldman

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

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

John Milton

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

Ludovico Ariosto

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Lord Byron

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.