Jealousy Quotes

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin

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

My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield

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

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
François de la Rochefoucauld

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
François de la Rochefoucauld

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food.  A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
Maya Angelou

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth E. Bowen

He that is not jealous is not in love.
St. Augustine

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
F. Sagan

Jealousy and love are sisters.
Russian Proverb

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

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
Antisthenes

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.
Spanish Proverb

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
Dennis Prager

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it.
Unknown

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
Danish Proverb

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates

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

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

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates

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

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Dr Samuel Johnson

It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.
William Shakespeare

Jealousy’s eyes are green.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
Breanna S

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
Mme. De Puisieux

A man’s jealousy is a social institution; a woman’s prostitution is an instinct.
Karl Kraus

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Janet Watson

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal