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Quotes about Jealousy

there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.
- George Eliot
We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.
- Gordon Hinckley
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
- St. Augustine
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
- Samuel Johnson
I am most gladly content that Christ breaketh all my idols in pieces: it hath put a new edge upon my blunted love to Christ. I see He is jealous of my love, and will have all to Himself.
- Samuel Rutherford
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Envy is the offspring of pride,
- Ellen White
I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.
- Billy Graham
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.
- Mark Twain
It need not seem at all strange that sin should so blind the mind, seeing that men's particular natural tempers and dispositions will so much blind them in secular matters; as when men's natural temper is melancholy, jealous, fearful, proud, or the like. 3.
- Jonathan Edwards
Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.
- Epicurus
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong