Jealousy Quotes

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

B. C. Forbes

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Samuel Johnson

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

Victor Hugo

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

Anita Shreve

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Mary Baker Eddy

Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well,Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinable gum. Set you down this,And say besides that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th' throat the circumcised dogAnd smote him thus.

William Shakespeare

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Ruth Rendell

Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

Steve Maraboli

When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.

Jeff Ross

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

Michael Ian Black

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

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

William Shakespeare

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Mary Schmich

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Joseph P. Kennedy

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

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

Gary Allan

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not

William Shakespeare

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

Brooke Burke

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Karl Kraus

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Milan Kundera