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Aristotle

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.

Mason Cooley

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved???s innermost thoughts.

Bible

For jealousy arouses a husband???s fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge. He will accept no compensation, and refuses a bribe no matter how great.

Joan Didion

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???s sister and a stranger in a

Emma Goldman

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one???s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

H. L. Mencken

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

Karl Kraus

A man???s jealousy is a social institution; a woman???s prostitution is an instinct.

La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Anthony Storr

The word ???jealousy??? is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses

Gore Vidal

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

Anthony Storr

The word ???jealousy??? is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses

Aristotle

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.

Robert Anson Heinlein

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 44.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, For envy is a kind of praise.

Sallust

They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Rudyard Kipling

There's no jealousy in the grave.

H. L. Mencken

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Mason Cooley

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved???s innermost thoughts.

Karl Kraus

A man???s jealousy is a social institution; a woman???s prostitution is an instinct.

Bible

Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., St. 24

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. v., Line 449.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

William Shakespeare

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Eubie

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Aeschylus

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

Alighieri Dante

Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Joe Orton

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

We are gentlemen, That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes, Envy the great, nor do the low despise.

Elbert Hubbard

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Dante Alighieri

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 284.

Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 266.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Bible

For jealousy arouses a husband???s fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge. He will accept no compensation, and refuses a bribe no matter how great.

Swami Vivekananda

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

William Hazlitt

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

William Arthur Ward

Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not manipulate.

La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

George Orwell

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.

DR. JOHNSON: _Van. of Human Wishes,_ Line 159.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,-- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 5.

For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. POPE: Satire ii., Line 159. So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

General George Patton

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.

Hal	I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Albert Einstein

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Seneca

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Francesco Petrarch

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Joan Didion

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???s sister and a stranger in a

Emma Goldman

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one???s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Leo C. Rosten

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

John Milton

Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Samuel Johnson

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Sylvia Plath

Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Unknown

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.

There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

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.

The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

"How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!" - Shakespeare

"I'll ignore that jealousy-inspired wisecrack." -- Margaret

"Jealousy is the weapon - you kill me."

"Envy and wrath shorten the life." -- Ecclesiasticus 30:24

"I bet your the only male in the school suffering from penis envy."

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

"All I envy is your chutzpah." -- Hawkeye to Winchester

"And how do we begin to envy?" -- Hannibal Lecter

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always prote

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealou

In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.

"What's with him?" "Laser envy."