Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Jealousy.
Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Dorothy Corkville Briggs
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
Aaron Carter
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Van Wyck Brooks
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
Conrad Veidt
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
Arthur Golden
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
Kristin Bauer van Straten
People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
Summer Altice
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
