Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Heber J. Grant

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

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.

Muriel Spark

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

Jude Law

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

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.

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.

Honore de Balzac

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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.

Erica Jong

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

John Gay

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jealousy's eyes are green.

Mary Douglas

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

Pete Fountain

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Rachel Field

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

John Dryden

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Joseph P. Kennedy

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Josh Billings

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Karl Kraus

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Karl Kraus

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

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.