(189 quotes found)
“Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.”
James Beattie
“My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.”
Christina Aguilera
“The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.”
Joni Mitchell
“I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.”
Shirley Bassey
“Guilt is always jealous”
John Ray
“The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“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