Envy / Jealousy Quotes

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Horace

The word

Anthony Storr, Churchill

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fo

A man

Karl Kraus, originally published

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one

Joan Didion, "Vogue", June, 1961

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chresto

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Margaret Mead

Envy and wrath shorten the life. Ecclesiasticus

Bible

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

George Bernard Shaw

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

William Hazlitt

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

John Gay

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Djuna Barnes

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.

Danish proverb

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Aeschylus

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Hesiod

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Sir Thomas Browne

Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.

Ralph Harper

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.

Jeff Foxworthy

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld