Jealousy Quotes

A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - - From foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Jean de la Bruyere

Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

Swami Vivekananda

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her - And most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.

Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince".

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

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

Paul Eldridge

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld