I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
— H. G. Wells
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
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
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
— Gene Tierney
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
— Emil Cioran
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
— Dorothy Corkille Briggs
I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
— David Thewlis
That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.
— Clyde Tombaugh
Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
— Christian Slater
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
— Cheryl Tiegs
'Carl Sagan: A Life,' though a riveting tale, tells as much about the all-too-human feelings of jealousy and resentment as it does about the individual who inspired them.
— Carolyn Porco
I grew up watching 'Taker, and he used to scare me as a kid, so I think it would only add to the excitement to be in a casket match with a guy like that. There's definitely some jealousy.
— Baron Corbin
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
— Arthur Golden
I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.
— Harold E. Varmus
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
— Giordano Bruno
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
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
— Gene Roddenberry
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
I could see jealousy coming up, I could see anger, I could see frustration. I could see people's agendas. I could see my kids going wild - because we never had any money, and suddenly, we had money.
— Erin Brockovich
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.
— Derren Brown
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
— Craig Brown
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.
— Claron McFadden
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
— Chrissie Hynde
Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.
— Chael Sonnen
I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
— Brooke Burke
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
— Baltasar Gracian
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
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.
— Hallie Ephron
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
— Germaine Greer
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
— George Meredith
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
— Gary Allan
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
— Francoise Sagan
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
— Erica Jong
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
— Drake
It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.
— Debbie Ford
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
— Conrad Veidt
If there's an inkling of abuse, I have to move on. Even jealousy - seems cute it first, but if they're getting in my head, it's not right for me. It's okay to be alone. It's okay to be single. The right thing will come along.
— Christina Milian
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
— Chris O'Dowd
Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.
— Cesare Beccaria
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
— Baruch Spinoza
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
— B. C. Forbes
