Quotes About Jealousy

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

— Gustave Flaubert

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvanargues

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

— Joseph Addison

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

— Lawrence Durrell

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

— William Shakespeare

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

— Ovid

In jealous there is more of self-love than love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whenever a friend succeed, a little something in me dies.

— Gore Vidal

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame.

— Baltasar Gracian

Jealousy, an uncontrollable passion.  The Siamese twin of love.

— Marlene Dietrich

It’s matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Jealousy is the only evil we endure without becoming accustomed to it.

— Colette

With jealousy, one has no time to be bored, and hardly time to grow old.

— Colette

Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.

— William Tecumseh Vernon