Quotes about jealousy

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

— Joseph Addison

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

— Minna Antrim

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

— Lord Byron

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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 is the jaundice of the soul.

— John Dryden

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

— George Eliot

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Jeff Foxworthy

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

— Emma Goldman

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

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

— Washington Irving

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had...

— Erica Jong

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

— George Meredith

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

— Francoise Sagan

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

— William Shakespeare

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.

— Source Unknown

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

When we're in the grasp of certain emotions such as fear, anger, or jealousy, our world becomes very small.

— Susan Salzburg

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

— George Eliot

Anybody's accomplishment is my accomplishment, if another human being is successful, it just means that that there's an opportunity for success. God bless.

— lucero, mario j.