106 Quotes Regarding Jealousy


Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen

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

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.
Clyde Tombaugh

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot

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

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
Marilyn Manson

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Marie de France

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Joseph P. Kennedy

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Washington Irving

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Jude Law