Jealousy Quotes And Sayings

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“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

“There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.”
– Lope de Vega

“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.”
– Lord Byron

“Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it”
– Lord Byron

“From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.”
– Ludovico Ariosto

“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

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.”
– Mark Twain

“That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there’s more jealousy in Switzerland because it’s so little and they don’t have so many athletes.”
– Martina Hingis

“Jealousy is the grave of affection.”
– Mary Baker Eddy

“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

“Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.”
– Mary Schmich

“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”
– Max Frisch

“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

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
– Milan Kundera

“Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.”
– Mme. de Puixieux

“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
– Oliver Stone

“Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women’s husbands.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.”
– Ovid

“Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard”
– Ovid

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
– Patrick Henry

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

“What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.”
– Pete Fountain

“Envy is ignorance.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.”
– Richard Perle

“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

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.”
– Robert Burton

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they’re almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil…”
– Robert Heinlein

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