Jealousy And Envy Quotes

• Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

  Rajneesh

  Inspiration, Envy, Possibility

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• Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Sad, Jealousy, Self Confidence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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

  Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

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• Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

  Joseph Addison

  Jealousy, Pain, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.356

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• Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Strong, Light

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 323

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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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• 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 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

  Jealousy, Envy, Romance

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.60, Bantam

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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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• 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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• To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

  Francoise Sagan

  Happiness, Jealousy, Laughter

  1965 La Chamade, ch.9.

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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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• Some men just want to watch the world burn

  Michael Caine

  Crush, Depressing, Dark

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

  Joan Didion

  Jealousy, Self, Cures

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 17, 2011

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• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Stupid, Envy

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• Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

  John Dryden

  Jealousy, Soul, Jaundice

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• 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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• No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Anger, Jealous

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• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Humble, Humility, Ambitious

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• Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

  Paul Eldridge

  Jealousy, Passion, Love Is

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• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

  George Eliot

  Jealousy, Passion, Fire

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Jealousy, Sarcastic

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 41

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• The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

  Djuna Barnes

  Jealous, Heart, Imperfection

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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