Quotes about Jealousy

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus 20:5.

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.