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Quotations about Jealousy & Envy
Jealousy.— Tormenting yourself for fear you should be tormented by another. ~"Specimens of a Patent Pocket Dictionary, For the use of those who wish to understand the meaning of things as well as words," The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 1824
Jealousy is nourished by doubt; and either becomes madness, or ceases as soon as we arrive at certainty. ~François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), translated by Le Chevalier de Chatelain, 1875
In jealousy there is less of love than of self-love. ~François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), translated by Le Chevalier de Chatelain, 1875
May we not be envious, since there is no need of envy. ~Charles F. Raymond, "A Petition," Just Be Glad, 1907
...envy is a waste of time. ~Berkley's Super Horoscope: Pisces, 2000
...an enemy's glory is the rival's hell. The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied wins applause. The immortality of his fame is the measure of the other's torture... ~Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658), The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from the Spanish by Joseph Jacobs, 1892
It was not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957
It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese, King Features, as quoted by The Reader's Digest, 1991
He who is not jealous is not in love. ~St. Augustine ["Qui non zelat non amat."
The Jealous are Troublesome to others, but a Torment to themselves. ~William Penn (1644–1718)
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~Josh Billings
I think a little breeze of apprehensive jealousy stirred the tranquil waters of that grand old heart. ~Samuel Reynolds Hole, "The Six of Spades," c.1860
Envy is a disease which feeds on its own growth. It is its own punishment and its own destiny. ~William Ellis, 1904
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies… ~Elizabeth D. C. Bowen, The House in Paris, 1935
Pure love allows no room for jealousy. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
Envy is admiration in despair. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Word Book, 1906
Envy excels in exciting jealousy... ~Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs, 1869, translated from the French by Joseph L. Blamire
JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can only be lost if not worth keeping. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Word Book, 1906
It must be remembered, however, that jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. ~Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, 1993
Don't envy; pity more. ~Charles F. Raymond, "This Banner Year," Just Be Glad, 1907
It was then first the poison of envy infected the pleasures of youth! — The magic of love overcame the endearments of friendship — every eye glistened with rapture, every bosom throbbed wild with delight, but jealousy had entered the circle, and concord and peace were no more! ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805), Fiesco, 1783, translated by George Charles D'Aguilar (1784–1855)
Jealousy exaggerates fears. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Fiesco, 1783
My jealousy was like a hungry animal, gnawing at my ribs... ~George Moore, The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story, 1916
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love... ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Is it an inexplicable thing that a girl should enjoy her lover's society the more for the presence of a third person, and be without the slightest spasm of jealousy, that the third person had the conversation habitually directed to her? Not when that girl is as tranquil-hearted as Lucy, thoroughly possessed with a belief that she knows the state of her companion's affections, and not prone to the feelings which shake such a belief in the absence of positive evidence against it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
His name is Envy, and not one of his characteristics need description; they are as well known as those of the domestic cat. But who shall explain the perpetuity of envy? A vice that yields nothing!
~Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), translated by Myndart Verelst (Edgar Saltus), 1885
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ~François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell, 1871
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance... ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. ~Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), translated by J. De Finod, 1880
Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man:
Men sometimes will jealous be,
Though but little cause they see...
~Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. ~Terri Guillemets
A woman never forgives the success of the man whom she refused to marry. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. ~Democritus Junior (Robert Burton, 1577–1640), The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1651 edition
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong...
~William Shakespeare, Othello, c.1604 [III, 3, Iago]
...it slays love quicker than any other one thing... Indeed, the jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. By their suspicions the jealous materialize the very thing they most dread... ~Dorothy Dix
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~Mark Twain
Lessons from jealousy and anger: sometimes the poison-keeper gets poisoned. ~Terri Guillemets
But envy is so base and detestable, so vile in its original, and so pernicious in its effects, that the predominance of almost any other quality is to be preferred. It is one of those lawless enemies of society, against which poisoned arrows may honestly be used. Let it therefore be constantly remembered, that whoever envies another, confesses his superiority, and let those be reformed by their pride who have lost their virtue. ~Samuel Johnson, 1751
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on...
~William Shakespeare, Othello, c.1604 [III, 3, Iago]
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)
Love has no pow'r to act, when chain'd by jealousy. ~Aaron Hill (1685–1750)
A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
Another's happiness will expiate
for any misfortune you might suffer.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932–2017), "People Were Laughing Behind a Wall," 1963
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction or notoriety, even vice and infamy. ~William Hazlitt
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see behind a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded. ~William Hazlitt
Don't let your jealousy harden into hate. ~Terri Guillemets
...to conquer the demon of jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis, "Husbands and Wives," Little Essays of Love and Virtue, 1922
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish proverb, quoted by Henry G. Bohn, 1857
...oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not..
~William Shakespeare, Othello, c.1604 [III, 3, Iago]
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