Category: Quotes About Jealousy

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

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. -Francoise Sagan

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

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. -David Seabury

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. -Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. -Jonathan Raban

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it. -Keira Knightley

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 lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. -Saint Augustine

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. -Baruch Spinoza

Jealousy is the fear of comparison. -Max Frisch

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

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. -Ambrose Bierce

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them…

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. -Gene Tierney

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

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. -Baltasar Gracian

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. -George Orwell

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. -Nas

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy. -Pete Fountain