Jealousy Quotes And Sayings

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

“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.”
– George Meredith

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
– George Orwell

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
– George Washington

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
– H. G. Wells

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
– Harold Coffin

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
– Havelock Ellis

“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds”
– Helen Rowland

“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

“Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.”
– Honore de Balzac

“Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins”
– Iris Murdoch

“That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
– J. M. Barrie

“No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.”
– James Beattie

“That is ever the way. ‘Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
– James M. Barrie

“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
– Jean Baudrillard

“Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative – self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it’s a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.”
– Jennifer James

“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self”
– Joan Didion

“Jealousy is the great exaggerator.”
– Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

“O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.”
– Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

“Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.”
– Johannes Brahms

“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
– John Dryden

“Jealousy is the injured lover‘s hell”
– John Milton

“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

“More men die of jealousy than of cancer.”
– Joseph P. Kennedy

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
– Josh Billings

“There’s no regret. You can’t regret. I mean, I’ve felt regret but I’ve also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don’t believe it. You feel it, it’s like guilt, it’s like jealousy, it’s like all those horrible things. You’ve just got to snip them and get them out, because they’re no good.”
– Jude Law

“Jealousy is a dog‘s bark which attracts thieves.”
– Karl Kraus

“I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.”
– Keira Knightley

“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
– Lawrence Durrell

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