Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.