There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot on jealousy
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. Dorothy Corkville Briggs on jealousy
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. Milan Kundera on jealousy
To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear. Ricky Williams on jealousy
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. James M. Barrie on jealousy
Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me! Sylvia Kristel on jealousy
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on jealousy
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. David Seabury on jealousy
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy. Kristin Bauer van Straten on jealousy
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life. Chrissie Hynde on jealousy
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. Richard Le Gallienne on jealousy
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. Paul Eldridge on jealousy
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. Lena Dunham on jealousy
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do. Cheryl Tiegs on jealousy
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 when I failed to respond to their advances. Julie Burchill on jealousy
I do not say anything from jealousy. Anna Held on jealousy
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 something of Self in all their speculations. George Byron on jealousy
I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy. Brooke Burke on jealousy
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? Mary Douglas on jealousy
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. Richard Perle on jealousy