Jealousy Quotations
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Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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| It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. |
| - Aeschylus |
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| I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. |
| - Astrid Alauda |
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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 |
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| As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. |
| - Antisthenes |
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| He that is not jealous is not in love. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| Envy is a waste of time. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Envy slays itself by its own arrows. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. |
| - Honoré de Balzac |
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| Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. |
| - Elizabeth Bowen |
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| Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. |
| - Robert Burton |
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| Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. |
| - Harold Coffin |
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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 |
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| Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. |
| - George Eliot |
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| Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. |
| - Havelock Ellis |
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| Envy is ignorance. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Jealousy... is a mental cancer. |
| - B.C. Forbes |
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| In jealousy there is more self-love than love. |
| - François |
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| The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. |
| - Baltasar Gracian |
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| Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. |
| - William Hazlitt |
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| It is better to be envied than pitied. |
| - Herodotus |
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| Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. |
| - Erica Jong |
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| Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. |
| - Ovid |
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| The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. |
| - William Penn |
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| If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. |
| - Danish Proverb |
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| Jealousy and love are sisters. |
| - Russian Proverb |
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| Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. |
| - Spanish Proverb |
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| Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. |
| - Sallust |
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| Jealousy is the great exaggerator. |
| - Johann Christoph friedrich von Schiller |
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| O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. |
| - Johann Christoph friedrich von Schiller |
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| And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Envy is the ulcer of the soul. |
| - Socrates |
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| Our envy of others devours us most of all. |
| - Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
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| Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. |
| - H.G. Wells |
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