Here is a collection of top 30 jealousy quotes to describe feelings of jealousy nd envy.
Jealousy Quotes :
- Jealousy is a human trait, cultivated by petty people who will never be what they want to be, or will never have what they want to have.
- “Jealousy isn’t a pleasant quality, but if it isn’t overdone (and if it’s combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there’s even something touching about it.” ~Milan Kundera
- “To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.” ~Francoise Sagan
- “Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.” ~William Shenstone
- “Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.” ~Helen Rowland
- “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” ~Carrie Fisher
- “Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.” ~Solomon Ibn Gabirol
- “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” ~François de La Rochefoucauld
- “In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.” ~François de La Rochefoucauld
- “Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.” ~Mary Schmich
Envy Jealousy Quotes :
- “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” ~Fulton J. Sheen
- “You can’t be yourself within jealousy.” ~Toba Beta
- “Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.” ~John Dryden
- “Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.” ~Havelock Ellis
- “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock. The meat it feeds on.” ~William Shakespeare
- “Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?” ~Sean Covey
- “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” ~William Penn
- “Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.” ~Shannon L. Alder
- “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” ~Bette Midler
- “He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.” ~Jacinto Benavente
Quotes On Jealousy :
- “It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.” ~Lawrence Durrell
- “Jealousy… is a mental cancer.” ~B. C. Forbes
- “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” ~H.G. Wells
- “Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” ~George Eliot
- “Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.” ~Gosho Aoyama
- “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.” ~Shannon L. Alder
- “As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.” ~Antisthenes
- “You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.” ~Margaret Atwood
- “Animals don’t know as much about jealousy as people, but they’re not ignorant of it, either.” ~Stephen King
- “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” ~William Shakespeare
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