Motivational Quotes

Jealousy

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Jealousy

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Dryden, John

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Socrates

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

Aeschylus

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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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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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

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Meredith, George

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Sallust

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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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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Sagan, Francoise

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar