Jealousy Quotes

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
-Socrates

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on."
-William Shakespeare

"It is better to be envied than pitied."
-Herodotus

"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."
-Sallust

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
-Erica Jong

"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves."
-Karl Kraus

"The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything."
-Curt Goetz

"Our envy of others devours us most of all."
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads."
-Dorothy Dix

"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive."
-Alexis Carrel

"Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want."
-Robert Bringle

"Jealousy is the injured lover's hell."
-John Milton

"Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude."
-Aphra Behn

"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self."
-Joan Didion

"Guilt is always jealous."
-John Ray

"What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself."
-Thomas a Kempis

"Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him."
-Bible

"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
-William Shenstone

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
-Fulton J. Sheen

"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
-William Shakespeare

"There's no jealousy in the grave."
-Rudyard Kipling

"One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the thing that pains it."
-George Eliot

"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
-Mary Baker Eddy

"Jealousy? Not at all. Sad, if anything, I thought. There is nothing she has that I could possibly want. Not even David."
-Rebecca Loos

"Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be."
-Joni Mitchell

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

"He has a jealousy problem. He's knocked a man down before, and he chased an ex-boyfriend out of the field."
-Amara Packwood

"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy."
-Lawrence Durrell