Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Jack White

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

Patrick Henry

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

Mike Nichols

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Margaret Atwood

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Larry Rivers

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Mary Schmich

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

Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Ovid

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Paul Eldridge

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Marilyn Manson

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Germaine Greer

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

George Washington

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 Orwell

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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.

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.

Helen Rowland

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

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.

Oliver Stone

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

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.