Jealousy Quotes - page 3

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. (William Shenstone)
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time. View quote
Drake (entertainer)
Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it. View quote
John Brunner
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! View quote
Bob Marley
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. View quote
Anatole France
Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct. View quote
Karl Kraus
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy. View quote
Emily Dickinson
You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again. View quote
Anne Brontë
Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support. (Robert H. Jackson)
Anger he smiles towering in shiney metallic purple armour, Queen jealousy envy waits behind him, Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. View quote
Paul Eldridge
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. View quote
J. M. Barrie
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. View quote
George Meredith
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. View quote
Milan Kundera
Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:... View quote
Adam Smith
I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise. View quote
Tom Felton
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship. View quote
Helen Fisher
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. (Helen Fisher)
Beware the viper in your closet. Isn't that another thing you're always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart. View quote
David Levithan
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. View quote
J.R. Ward
I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age. View quote
Jane Goldman