Deceived Quote by Laurence Fishburne

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned…

— Anthony Storr

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

— Honore de Balzac

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the…

— Emma Goldman

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

— Joseph Addison

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

— Wes Fesler

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit

— Mme De Puixieux

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

— Parul Sehgal

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right…

— Franny Billingsley

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

— Franz Grillparzer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

— Germaine Greer

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche