Jealousy Quotes

Jealousy Quotes & Sayings

These jealousy quotes and jealousy sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several, from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. - Jean De La Bruyere


Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. - Helen Rowland


That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. - Sir James Matthew Barrie


In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one's sister and a stranger in a pink hat seen once and admired on the corner of 55th and Madison, as well as oneself, mysteriously improved. - Joan Didion


The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. - Salvador Dali


Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Henry Havelock Ellis


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


Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. - Fulton John Sheen