Jealousy Quotes
Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.
- Spanish Proverb
Envy is ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jealousy is a crutch.
- C. Astrid Weber
Jealousy and love are sisters.
- Russian Proverb
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
- B.C. Forbes
Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
- Johann Christoph
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden
He that is not jealous is not in love.
- St. Augustine
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
- Johann Christoph
It is better to be envied than pitied.
- Herodotus
The ear of jealousy heareth all things.
- Bible
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
- Mark Twain
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
- William Shakespeare
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
- Danish Proverb
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self doubt.
- Leslie Grimutter
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
- Washington
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
- Horace
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
Do not envy a sinner; you don’t know what disaster awaits him.
- Bible
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
- Antisthenes
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
- Elizabeth Bowen
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
- Baltasar Gracian
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
- Dorothy Dix
Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
- Mme. de Puixieux
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
- François Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
- François Rochefoucauld
Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like a cancer.
- Bible
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
- Harold Coffin
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
- William Shakespeare
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
- Lope Vega
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.
- William Shakespeare
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
- Honore De Balzac
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce


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