Jealousy Quotations | Page 2

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man.

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.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.