Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

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

Erica Jong

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

Francoise Sagan

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

Chrissie Hynde

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Gene Tierney

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

Francis Marion Crawford

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

H. L. Mencken

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

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.