Quotes About Jealousy

Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well.

Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.

Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

Why? Why would you do that?" "You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Envy suggests inferiority.

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.

I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy People kill for me or die to defend me