Quotes About Jealousy

Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the feelings of disappointment that invariably follow are the seeds of greater discord and faultfinding among those who expected a learning experience that did not come.

Jealousy makes people do and say stupid things.

Iedereen wil dat wonderkinderen mislukken. Dat maakt onze eigen middelmatigheid beter te verdragen.

Beware of people that envy you.

Everybody loves and desires success, but they dislike and are envious of successful people.

If there's one thing that really spoils [fill in blank with anything good], it's OTHER PEOPLE.

I was just one of those graves that pretty girls make.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

Men are always jealous of women who are superior to themselves.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Once envy eats away at someone, everything you do only makes it grow, and day by day it festers inside him. Eventually he will attack.

One of Cosimo's favorite expressions was, Envy is weed that should not be watered.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical

he will replace you with someone less intelligent, less attractive, less threatening

While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything.

Test for Envy

The root of the Latin word for envy, invidia, means "to look through, to probe with the eyes like a dagger.

People who are envious cannot help feeling some glee when they hear of the bad luck of those they envy.

The Laws of Human Nature, 10: Beware the Fragile Ego—The Law of Envy

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Maldito Rand al'Thor!» Una se enamoraba de un hombre y acababa haciendo la colada, aunque la ropa perteneciera a otro hombre.