Jealousy Quotes
1108 quotes by 790 authors
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From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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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…
— Aristotle
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He that is jealous is not in love.
— Saint Augustine
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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…
— Saint Augustine
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That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
— James M. Barrie
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
— Jean Baudrillard
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I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and…
— Joy Behar
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
— Aphra Behn
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
— Josh Billings
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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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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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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…
— Johannes Brahms
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually…
— Julie Burchill
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I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
— Brooke Burke
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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a…
— Lord Byron
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
— Lord Byron
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
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