Top 100+ Jealousy Quotes

The jealous are possessed by a

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I do a lot of sexy

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

Brooke Burke

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they

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

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the

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

Ambrose Bierce

The jealousy and resentment that animate

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

Richard Perle

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

Critics? Don’t talk to me

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 would rather drudge out my

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is the tie that binds

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Helen Rowland

It’s amazing the clarity that

It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Rupert Everett

To talk about balance, it’s

To talk about balance, it’s easier to talk about what’s out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there’s disease, you’re out of balance, whether it’s jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

Ricky Williams

Jealousy is the grave of affection

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Mary Baker Eddy

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don’t know, I’ve always been intrigued by those emotions.

Adrian Lyne

I don’t get jealousy, I

I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.

Nas

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On the same line of reasoning

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England’s account.

Henry Lawson

It is remarkable that jealousy of

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

William Graham Sumner

I feel like a lot of

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

Lena Dunham

But when I would see the

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

Cheryl Tiegs
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