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Quotes About Jealousy

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
~ John Calvin
Good will attract good to itself, and those involved will unite toward a common goal. Evil, in turn, draws evil men, but they will never truly act as one. They will always be distrustful, always jealous. Ultimately, they seek power for themselves alone, and for that reason they will always fall apart at the end.
~ John Connolly
They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder!
~ John Dennis
MARK but this flea
~ John Donne
Much malice mingled with a little wit.
~ John Dryden
Your Cleopatra; Dolabella's Cleopatra; every man's Cleopatra.
~ John Dryden
Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.
~ Demi Lovato
Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.
~ Marie of Romania
If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.
~ Arabella Weir
The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
~ Oscar Wilde
She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
~ Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
~ William Shakespeare
You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.
~ Anna Camp
We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!
~ AnnaLynne McCord
For someone who's made it clear that her life is superior to every other student's at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.
~ Bob Dylan
Mary felt the cause of the conflict was Chatterton's hatred of her role, that of a woman "trying to hang on to her youth—which is exactly what Ruth herself was doing.
~ Edward Sorel
Mind you, I don't know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth." - Some Hope
~ Edward St. Aubyn
To envy a man is to misunderstand him or yourself (pp 111).
~ Edward Thomas
As a rose blooms and grows with thorns as a protective nature; similarly, love navigates with jealousy and selfishness, as a self-protective measure; such attribution exhibits a natural weapon.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
As pollution is poison for the climate of the blue planet; similarly, jealousy, greed, and egoism are poison for the climate of thoughts beauty.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Critique should educate authentic knowledge that enlightens the thoughts and execute such insight that beautifies the writing journey, not jealousy, egoism, or personal attacks.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Each one of us breathes with the jealousy. However, it depends on that one prevents the jealousy or jealousy poisons one.
~ Ehsan Sehgal