Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muriel Spark

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

George Henry Lewes

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

Jean de la Bruyere

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

Jean Baudrillard

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

Jay-Z

Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.

Carlos Alazraqui

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

Buck Owens

Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You dont have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.

Mike Ditka

He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

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.

Ice Cube

Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous.

Iris Murdoch

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Gloria Steinem

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.

J. K. Rowling

Jealous?...Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.

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.

H. L. Mencken

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

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.

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.