Jealousy Quotes and Sayings

Jealousy Quotes

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

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

Envy is a waste of time.  ~Author Unknown

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.  ~Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957

It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese

He that is not jealous is not in love.  ~St. Augustine

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.  ~Harold Coffin

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.  ~Elizabeth Bowen

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.  ~Spanish Proverb

Calamities are of two kinds:  misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.  ~Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value.  Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you.  There is only one alternative - self-value.  If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved.  You will always think it's a mistake or luck.  Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within.  Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences.  Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security.  Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.  ~Jennifer James

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.  ~Maya Angelou

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.  ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

Jealousy and love are sisters.  ~Russian Proverb

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.  ~Antisthenes

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.  ~Mme. de Puixieux

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.  ~A.R. Orage

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.  ~George Eliot

[T]he ear of jealousy heareth all things.  ~The Bible (Apocrypha), Wisdom of Solomon 1:10

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~Honore de Balzac

 

   

 

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. ~Terri Guillemets

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ~François de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is ignorance.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.  ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. ~Honoré de Balzac

Never love unless you can

Bear with all the faults of man:

Men will sometimes jealous be,

Though but little cause they see.

~Thomas Campion, "Never Love"

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse:  envy alone wants both.  ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Trifles light as air

Are to the jealous confirmations strong

As proofs of holy writ.

~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.  ~Dorothy Dix

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.  ~Mark Twain

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.  ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

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

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;

It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock

The meat it feeds on.

~William Shakespeare, Othello

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth.  Each of us has something to give that no one else has.  ~Elizabeth O'Connor

Envy assails the noblest:  the winds howl around the highest peaks.  ~Ovid

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.  ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.  ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.  ~Paul Eldridge

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.  ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. ~Astrid Alauda

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.  ~B.C. Forbes

Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.  ~Terri Guillemets

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  ~Danish Proverb

Envy slays itself by its own arrows.  ~Author Unknown

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.  ~William Shakespeare