Jealousy Quotes

I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

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

For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

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

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

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

These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

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.

If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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.

Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

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.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

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

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

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

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

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

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .

I hate girls that giggle all the time... You hate any girl that David looks at.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.

All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.