Jealousy Quotes And Sayings

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

“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.”
– David Seabury

“The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.”
– Dorothy Corkville Briggs

“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.”
– Dorothy Dix

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

“Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
– Emile M. Cioran

“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
– Erica Jong

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

“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 contains more of self-love than of love.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
– François de la Rochefoucauld

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

“Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty”
– François de la Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity in the person who causes it”
– François de la Rochefoucauld

“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.”
– Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”
– François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
– François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.”
– François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
– Francoise Sagan

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
– Fulton J. Sheen

“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
– Gene Tierney

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

“Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”
– George Byron

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

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
– George Eliot

“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

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