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110+ Jealousy Quotes And Sayings

Jealousy is that unpleasant emotion you feel when you think someone’s trying to take what’s yours. Jealousy might creep up on you if someone flirts with your sweetie or copies your unique style.Jealousy defines an unhappy feeling because someone has something that you would like or can do something that you would like to do. This is a collection of 110+ Jealousy quotes and sayings.


Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Havelock Ellis
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. - Oliver Stone
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. - William Shenstone
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. - Gene Tierney
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy. - Kristin Bauer van Straten
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time. - Drake
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. - Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. - Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy is the fear of comparison. - Max Frisch
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. - William Penn
Jealousy... is a mental cancer. - B. C. Forbes
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. - Fulton J. Sheen
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. - Gary Allan
He that is jealous is not in love. - Saint Augustine
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. - Robert Kraft
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. - Mary Schmich
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. - William Shenstone
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. - Francoise Sagan
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. - Erica Jong
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. - Jean Baudrillard
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. - Lope de Vega
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. - Germaine Greer
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. - Lawrence Durrell
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. - Karl Kraus
It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. - Rupert Everett
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is the worst trait in any person. - Adam DeVine
Jealousy is a scary thing. - Laura Dern
The knives of jealousy are honed on details. - Ruth Rendell
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. - Arthur Golden
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. - George Eliot
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 is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. - John Dryden
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. - Helen Rowland
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. - George Meredith
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. - Dorothy Corkille Briggs
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. - William Penn
Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers. - Norman MacDonald
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. - George Eliot
Jealousy is always born with love, but doesn't always die with it. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. Mme . - De Puisieux
Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. - John Dryden
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Carrie Fisher
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. - William Shakespeare
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. - François de La Rochefoucauld
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy. - Elizabeth Gaskell
Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves. - Jan Neruda
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. - Salvador Dalí
Jealousy’s a weak emotion. - Jay-Z
You can't be yourself within jealousy. - Toba Beta
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either. - Stephen King
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw. - Gosho Aoyama
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. - William Shakespeare
Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous. - Bauvard
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. - Irvin D. Yalom
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
He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough. - Jacinto Benavente
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures? - Michael Connelly
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. - George Bernard Shaw
Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison. - Francesca Marciano
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. - Victor Hugo
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. - Josh Billings
In a not too distant future, reason and education will have driven home the lesson of the futility of jealousy. - Pitigrilli
Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world. - Iris Murdoch
True friendship doesn't include jealousy. - Eraldo Banovac
Jealousy is being called up to what you can have, instead of called out for what you don't have. - Jackie Viramontez
Jealousy is not contemptible real love has a beak and claws. - Simone de Beauvoir
Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy. - Daphne du Maurier
Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart. - Stewart Stafford
Jealousy is projected self-pity. - Narcissismus Decimus Maximus
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. - Heraclitus
Jealousy of another means you need to work on making you proud of yourself. - Sam Owen
Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers. - Kevin Keenoo
The jealousy holds neither the colours and nor the places. It is voiceless and timeless a time bomb within you to blow up only you, not others. - Ehsan Sehgal
Stay away to abuse and misemploy knowledge, and neutrality with jealousy since it reflects the lack of sense. - Ehsan Sehgal
Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers. - Kevin Keenoo
Insecurity creates ditches for others and oneself as well. - Kushiro Shoko
Love emancipates you from prison of envy and jealousy. It makes u invisible to hatred and oblivious of self. - Irrfan ishaq
Haters never seem to realize that jealousy is an infinite torture to which you condemn yourself. - Steve Maraboli
Guard your heart against anger, bitterness, envy, jealousy….! - Lailah Gifty Akita
Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater. - Ron Baratono
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. - Margaret Thatcher
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. - Jim Rohn
Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. Arab proverb
More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love. - Marty Rubin
A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet. - Colleen Houck
People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game. - April Mae Monterrosa
Success causes others to be jealous and hate. - Sunday Adelaja
Jealousy is like wood ants, it will nibble away, until there's nothing left. - Charmaine J.Forde
To live with a mind full of grudges and jealousy, is to bargain to be constantly punished by negative feelings and emotions. - Edmond Mbiaka
Gossip is the sound of jealousy. - Anton Rubaclini
If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse. - Emily Matchar
Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it's not changed. - Srishtie
What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless. - Sheldon Vanauken
Jealousy is like a cactus its respond and reaction is thorny. - Kishore Bansal
Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy. - Unarine Ramaru
Jealousy devours us, we are its dish of the day. - Charles de Leusse
I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it. - Leo Tolstoy
Think about the suffering we cause ourselves internally through getting angry or jealous. - Gyalwa Dokhampa
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time. - Drake
Jealous is an ugly thing. - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you. - Anna Deavere Smith
When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy. - Teresa Mummert
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful. - Frank Herbert
The knives of jealousy are honed on details. - Ruth Rendell
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. - Charley Reese
Envy is an insult to oneself. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen. - Raheel Farooq
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. - Jean Vanier
Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died. - Megan Hart
There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. - Franny Billingsley
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. - Joseph Epstein
Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy. - Ella Leya
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