Quotes About Jealousy

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, Why should I? He never reads any of mine.

We all envy other people's luck.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

Envy is a kind of praise.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.