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Quotes About Jealousy

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
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
~ Abbott L. Lowell
I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.
~ Lenny Abrahamson
It is jealousy that leads people to tarnish you.
~ Priyadarshan
It's a big jealousy thing in Germany that you have from fans - not the hardcore fans, because they always stand behind their team.
~ Andre Schurrle
There's really not much friendship between the girls on tour. There's so much rivalry and jealousy, so everyone just hangs out in their own camp. In the locker room and players' lounge, you can feel the jealousy.
~ Ana Ivanovic
Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
~ Sylvia Kristel
My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.
~ Kristy McNichol
Little kids definitely have desires and jealousy. There are some emotions that don't show up at birth, but by three or four, they are all there.
~ Pete Docter
I grew up watching 'Taker, and he used to scare me as a kid, so I think it would only add to the excitement to be in a casket match with a guy like that. There's definitely some jealousy.
~ Baron Corbin
I believe in healthy competition not jealousy.
~ Kovai Sarala
When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.
~ Brad Hall
There's so much jealousy in our business. They don't like anything new or different. They don't like change.
~ Bob Baffert
Jealousy is a natural feeling, even when your happy for the person and you love them.
~ Sonja Morgan
When I tried out for cheerleader, they sneered, 'You're too good, kid,' and put me in the high-kick line instead. It was pure jealousy, if you ask me.
~ Joey Heatherton
In 'The Beginning,' each one of us was introduced, but the audience didn't know our back stories and the drama. You wouldn't have known how deep Bhallaladeva's jealousy for Baahubali is.
~ Rana Daggubati
If a player has jewelry or a cool car, people in Germany are instantly jealous.
~ Jerome Boateng
I'm always jealous of Johnny Depp's sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy hat and waistcoat, I'd look like a homeless person.
~ Stephen Merchant
Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.
~ Francesca Marciano
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
~ Francis Bacon
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
Y desnuda, rotísima doncella, tan linda estás, estás tan rica y bella, que matas más de celos y de amores que vestida a colores: y eres así a la espada parecida: que matas más desnuda que vestida.
~ Francisco de Quevedo
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld