Jealousy Quotes

1. You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

^{Gary Allan}

2. I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

^{Heidi Klum}

3. Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

^{Oliver Stone}

4. Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

^{B. C. Forbes}

5. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

^{William Penn}

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

^{Mary Schmich}

7. He that is jealous is not in love.

^{Saint Augustine}

8. 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

9. There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

^{Lope de Vega}

10. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

^{H. G. Wells}

11. 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}

12. Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

^{John Dryden}

13. Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

^{Max Frisch}

14. Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

^{Fulton J. Sheen}

15. As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

^Antisthenes

16. A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

^{Jean Baudrillard}

17. More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

^{Joseph P. Kennedy}

18. It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

^{Lawrence Durrell}

19. Jealousy is the grave of affection.

^{Mary Baker Eddy}

20. Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

21. Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

^{Baruch Spinoza}

22. Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.

^{Karl Kraus}

23. Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

^{Francois de La Rochefoucauld}

24. There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

^{Washington Irving}

25. 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}

26. But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

^Herodotus

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

^{Johann Kaspar Lavater}

28. My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

^{Rodney Dangerfield}

29. 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}

30. Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

^{Erica Jong}

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

^{Havelock Ellis}

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

^{Ludovico Ariosto}

33. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

^{Elizabeth Bowen}

34. Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

^{George Eliot}

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

^{Baltasar Gracian}

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

^{Solomon Ibn Gabirol}

37. The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

^{Ruth Rendell}

38. Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

^{Alexis Carrel}

39. If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

^{Marie de France}

40. 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}

41. To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

^{Francoise Sagan}

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

^{Helen Rowland}

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

^{William Shenstone}

44. People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn’t going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it’s all about? Jealousy.

^{Summer Altice}

45. Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

^{Aphra Behn}

46. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

^{Gene Tierney}

47. Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

^{William Wycherley}

48. Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

^{Arthur Golden}

49. Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

^{Germaine Greer}

50. I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

^{Jeff Foxworthy}

51. Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

^{Van Wyck Brooks}