Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
— William Wycherley
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
— William Graham Sumner
I don't want anything negative in my life, like hate, comparison, competition, and jealousy. I think these things are very heavy and take away from you the way of enjoying life.
— Vivek Oberoi
People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
— Summer Altice
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
— Salvador Dali
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
— Ruth Rendell
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
— Richard Perle
Jealousy is unavoidable - it's part of the price we pay for intimacy.
— Rachel Simmons
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
— Pete Fountain
I'm getting used to this as a coach because it's a little jealousy from a lot of these coaches around the country. I do understand that, because we are NBA players trying to come back, and we didn't have any experience as college coaches. So we didn't, quote, unquote, 'Pay our dues.'
— Penny Hardaway
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
— Oliver Stone
I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
— Nas
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
— Milan Kundera
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
— Max Frisch
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
— William Shenstone
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
— Washington Irving
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
— Van Wyck Brooks
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.
— Sophie Hannah
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Whether it's angst or jealousy, catfights always have to come from the wellspring of the emotion of the character.
— Sallie Patrick
It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
— Rupert Everett
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.
— Robert Kraft
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
— Richard Le Gallienne
Money brings jealousy and bitterness.
— Phil Taylor
Little kids definitely have desires and jealousy. There are some emotions that don't show up at birth, but by three or four, they are all there.
— Pete Docter
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
— Paul Eldridge
I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
— Olga Kurylenko
I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
— Nadine Velazquez
I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
— Michael Ian Black
Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.
— Matthew McConaughey
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
— William Penn
I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.
— Vusi Mahlasela
You will never see Lil Wayne in New Orleans. You will never see those type of guys in New Orleans because the hate and the jealousy is that real and it's that overwhelming.
— Tyrann Mathieu
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.
— Shiloh Fernandez
He that is jealous is not in love.
— Saint Augustine
If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.
— Ron Moody
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.
— Rivers Cuomo
In 'The Beginning,' each one of us was introduced, but the audience didn't know our back stories and the drama. You wouldn't have known how deep Bhallaladeva's jealousy for Baahubali is.
— Rana Daggubati
I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it's so hard.
— Peyton List
'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
I think that there's more jealousy in sports than racism, really. I think racism exists in the works, but when I faced racism in hockey, a lot of times from jealousy, because when I was young, I was always one of the better players. And I think a lot of people were threatened by that.
— P.K. Subban
I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.
— Norbert Leo Butz
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.
— Mohsin Hamid
Jealousy is a human emotion, regardless of whether you're a Branch Davidian or you're whomever, outside in society.
— Melissa Benoist
