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The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Sep 17, 2025
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
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.
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
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.
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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.
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.