Motivational Quotes

Jealousy

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.

- Foxworthy, Jeff

Best Quotes about Jealousy

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Bible

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Meredith, George

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Addison, Joseph

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Socrates

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Herodotus

10.

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Luce, Clare Boothe

11.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Hesiod

12.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong

13.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Sagan, Francoise

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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Antrim, Minna

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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Dryden, John

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Barnes, Djuna

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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had...

Jong, Erica

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Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.

Foxworthy, Jeff

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

Goldman, Emma

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Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

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Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

Robert Bringle

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Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.