Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

Milan Kundera

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

Milan Kundera

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Joseph Addison

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Joseph Addison

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

Joseph Addison

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

Joni Mitchell

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Ellen Glasgow

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

Emily Dickinson

God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

Hesiod

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

Helen Rowland

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

Henry James

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn’t matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you’re in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity. When however you love in the most abysmal and unutterable way of all – whey then you’re beyond everything, and nothing can pull you down.

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.

Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.

Oliver Stone

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

O. J. Simpson

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

Mason Cooley

I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.

Mason Cooley

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

Mason Cooley

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Mason Cooley

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

Martina Hingis

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

Malik Rose

I felt proud of them and happy for them as friends. But then I was, not jealous in a bad way, but I just was wishing I had been there ... It did take me a while to accept that reality, but that's over with now.

John Adams

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited.

John Adams

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

Louise Erdrich

my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

James M. Barrie

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

Joe Rogan

I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you.

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.