Jealous And Envy Quotes

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

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Jealousy, Sight, Firsts

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

  Emma Goldman

  Jealousy, Poor, Mediums

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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

  Havelock Ellis

  Love, Jealousy, Hate

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.73, Elsevier

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Jealousy, Winning, Envy

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sad, Jealousy, Knowledge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

  Lord Byron

  Jealousy, Envy, World

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Fun

  1977 HowTo SaveYour Own Life.

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Jealousy, Time, Mad

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• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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

  Charley Reese

  Jealousy, Hate, Envy

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• Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

  Oliver Stone

  Jealousy, Envy, Underestimate

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• Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

  Drake

  Jealousy, Hate, Humble

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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

  George Eliot

  Love, Jealousy, Anger

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)

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• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  Gary Allan

  Jealousy, Stars, Moon

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• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  Antisthenes

  Jealousy, Anger, Passion

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

  Aristotle

  Jealousy, Men, Envy

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  You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jealousy, Thinking, Being Jealous

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 12, 2016

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• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

  Josh Billings

  Relationship, Jealousy, Hate

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

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• Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Jealousy, Loneliness, Envy

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 2, ch. 8

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• 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, Wife, Calendars

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• Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Jealousy, Dragons, Envy

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

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• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Jealousy, Envy

  Lawrence Durrell (1957). “Justine: By Lawrence Durrell”

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• To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

  Francoise Sagan

  Happiness, Jealousy, Laughter

  1965 La Chamade, ch.9.

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

  Aeschylus

  Friendship, Jealousy, Character

  "The Oresteian Trilogy". Play by Aeschylus, 458 BC.

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