Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Kardashian

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

Joseph P. Kennedy

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

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

James M. Barrie

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

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.

Lord Byron

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Helen Rowland

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

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

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.

Johannes Brahms

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.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

John Dryden

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Heber J. Grant

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

Cheryl Strayed

If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.

Edna O'Brien

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

Arthur Golden

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Charley Reese

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

William Shakespeare

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

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.

Elbert Hubbard

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

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.