Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B.C. Forbes
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
Danish Proverb
Envy slays itself by its own arrows.
Author Unknown
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
William Shakespeare
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Envy is a waste of time.
Author Unknown
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese
He that is not jealous is not in love.
St. Augustine
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.
Spanish Proverb
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
Jealousy and love are sisters.
Russian Proverb
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
Antisthenes
Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
Mme. de Puixieux
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
The ear of jealousy heareth all things.
Wisdom of Solomon
Jealousy is a crutch.
C. Astrid Weber
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honore de Balzac
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.
Leslie Grimutter
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Envy is ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
Dorothy Dix
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Mark Twain
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
Ovid
A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Samuel Johnson
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
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.
Maya Angelou
Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller