Jealousy Quotes for Reflection & Healing – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Mary Schmich

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Aphra Behn

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Stendhal

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Washington Irving

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Charles Churchill

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

William Graham Sumner

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Thornton Wilder

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

Joseph Epstein

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

John Gay

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Abraham Cowley

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Titus Livius

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Francis Beaumont

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

Gustav Stresemann

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Thomas Browne

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Erich Fromm

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Xun Zi

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Jacopo Sannazaro

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Francoise Sagan

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Karl A. Menninger

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Eubie Blake

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Arthur Golden

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Joseph Epstein

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

Adrian Lyne

Envy aims very high.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

Arthur C. Brooks

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Philip James Bailey

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

Adam Weishaupt

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

George Meredith

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

J. M. Barrie

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Charley Reese

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Van Wyck Brooks

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Charles Sanders Peirce

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Chris Wallace