Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Held

I do not say anything from jealousy.

Desmond Tutu

A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

Andre Gide

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

Clare Boothe Luce

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Dalai Lama

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

Hallie Ephron

My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

Conrad Veidt

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

Curt Goetz

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

William Shakespeare

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

Anne Lamott

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

William Shakespeare

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Adriana Lima

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Adrian Lyne

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

William Shakespeare

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

William Shakespeare

Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

Alexis Carrel

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

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.

Anthony Storr

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

George Eliot

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

George Eliot

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

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

Henry Lawson

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

Erica Jong

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

George Bernard Shaw

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Heber J. Grant

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

Muriel Spark

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

Iris Murdoch

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

H. G. Wells

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.