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Quotes About Jealousy

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.
~ Jacinto Benavente
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.
~ Megan Hart, Tear You Apart
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
~ Lord Byron
Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
~ Sivananda
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
~ Germaine Greer
The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
~ Jerry Bridges
When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.
~ Alfonso Cuaron
Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.
~ David O. McKay
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
~ Iris Murdoch
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.
~ Tammara Webber
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
~ Minna Antrim
If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
~ Geoff Dyer
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
~ George Gordon Byron
Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .
~ John Milton
Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.
~ Solomon
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
~ Jonathan Raban
War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
~ F. Paul Wilson, Reprisal