101 private quotes tagged jealousy

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” — George Orwell

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“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.” — Aristotle

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“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” — George Eliot

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“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” — George Eliot

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“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.” — Lord Byron

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“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” — George Washington

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“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” — H. G. Wells

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“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” — William Penn

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“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.” — Antisthenes

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“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.” — George Eliot

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“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!” — Marie de France

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“Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!” — Sylvia Kristel

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“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.” — Jean Baudrillard

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“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.” — William Shenstone

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“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.” — Ricky Williams

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“I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.” — Heidi Klum

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“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.” — Max Frisch

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“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” — Bob Marley

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