Quoteland Topic Matches:
Envy / Jealousy
Quotation Matches:
Anger
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
 -George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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Baby, Babies
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To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.
-Samuel Johnson, Rambler #148, August 17, 1751
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Books
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Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.
-Ernesto Sabato
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Confidence
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
-Lazarus Long
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Cowardice/Weakness
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
-Epictetus
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Creativity
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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
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Criticism
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Envy / Jealousy
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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, The Art of Rhetoric, sect. 6, ch. 2.11.
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For jealousy arouses a husband
-Bible, Proverbs 6:34-35
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
-Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994)
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one
-Joan Didion, "Vogue", June, 1961
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
-John Dryden
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
-George Eliot
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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
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
-Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, ch. 1, 1937
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Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
-Emma Goldman, Lecture,, 1912
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
-Washington Irving
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
-Erica Jong
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
-Margaret Mead
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Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
-H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 619, Knopf (1949)
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
-George Meredith
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
-Fran, Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 33 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706)
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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
-Fran
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
-Fran
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
-Francoise Sagan
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.
-Source Unknown
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Fate & Destiny
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Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
-David Seabury
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Friends
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Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.
-Stephen Ambrose
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Government
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The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.
No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty.
-Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza
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Humanity
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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
-William Blake
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Infidelity
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
-J. August Strindberg
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Inspirational
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The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or good, but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage, and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected - as ready to say I do not know, if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality - to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
I wish others to live their lives, too - up to their highest, fullest, and best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be radiant - to radiate life.
-Elbert Hubbard, Love, Life & Work; Roycroft Press, 1906
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Love
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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?
-Shirley Hazzard
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Marriage
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That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
-James Barrie
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Morals
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Praise
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The great commitment is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one -- and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart. You thought you were indifferent to praise for achievements which you would not yourself have counted to your credit, or that, if you should be tempted to feel flattered, you would always remember that the praise far exceeded what the events justified. You thought yourself indifferent -- until you felt your jealousy flare up at his naive attempts to make himself important, and your self-conceit stood exposed. Concerning the hardness of the heart -- and its littleness -- let me read with open eyes the book my days are writing, and learn.
-Dag Hammarskjold, Markings
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Sports
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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, Shooting an Elephant, The Sporting Spirit, 1950
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Success & Failure
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
-Salvador Dali
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Technology
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
-Arthur Koestler
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Vanity
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
-Iris Murdoch
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