Jealousy Quotes

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - - From foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

Paul Eldridge

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973

In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

Love is the 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 Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her - And most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.

Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince".

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

Alexandre Dumas

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

Swami Vivekananda

A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Anson Heinlein