Jealousy Quotes

"If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill."

- Source Unknown

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"Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them."

- Source Unknown

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"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."

- William Shenstone

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"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."

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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

- Baltasar Gracian

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"Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something."

- Dennis Prager

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"The suburban housewife – she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women...

- Betty Friedan

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"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."

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"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties."

- Gene Tierney

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"But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth."

- Source Unknown

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"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies."

- J. K. Rowling

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

- Salvador Dal

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

- Eubie Blake

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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease,...

- Robert A. Heinlein

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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal...

- Winston Churchill

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"Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the gra...

- Bible

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"Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it."

- Francois Vi Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; t...

- Leo Buscaglia

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"As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy."

- Antisthenes

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"For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."

- Source Unknown

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"Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy."

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"Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another."

- Source Unknown

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"I just got a chill. Sometimes I envy people who are hearing a piece of music for the first time. That joy of discovery...

- Michael Fine

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"Envy is an insult to oneself."

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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