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People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Summer Altice

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Billy Graham

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

Nas

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

James Beattie

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

George Eliot

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

John Wayne

I'm an imperfect person. I've let anger, jealousy, all the emotions, get the best of me. If I go into books, word by word, little by little, they help re-center and re-ground me and put me on the right path. Life is a journey. I'm very focused on the things I do and have learned not to be pressured.

Keith Thurman

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Emil Cioran

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

John McAfee

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Milan Kundera

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Max Frisch

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

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Bob Marley

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Gary Zukav

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

I don't want anything negative in my life, like hate, comparison, competition, and jealousy. I think these things are very heavy and take away from you the way of enjoying life.

Vivek Oberoi

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

George Eliot

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Oliver Stone

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Alexis Carrel

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

Havelock Ellis

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

Clyde Tombaugh

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Lope de Vega

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Aphra Behn

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

He that is jealous is not in love.

Saint Augustine

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Drake

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Gary Allan

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Milla Jovovich

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Washington Irving

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Aaron Carter

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Ludovico Ariosto

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Marilyn Manson

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Helen Rowland

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

Derren Brown

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Robert Kraft

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

William Penn

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Germaine Greer

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Herodotus

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Rodney Dangerfield

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Ruth Rendell

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

Keira Knightley

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

Phil Taylor

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

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

Ron Moody

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Karl Kraus

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Van Wyck Brooks

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Arthur Golden

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

Tom Felton

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

James M. Barrie

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Baruch Spinoza

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Baltasar Gracian

'Game of Thrones,' people say that it's a fantasy series, but it's a hell of a lot more than that. It attracts the so-called geeks and nerds, and God bless them, they're wonderful for getting right into the show. But primarily it's about family; it's power and betrayal and jealousy. It's all those wonderful things that a fantastic drama is about.

Liam Cunningham

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

Robert A. Heinlein

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Antisthenes

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.

Debbie Ford

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Jeff Foxworthy

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Jude Law

Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.

Christian Slater

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

Ricky Williams

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Dryden

I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.

Vivek Murthy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Lawrence Durrell

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

B. C. Forbes

Jealousy is unavoidable - it's part of the price we pay for intimacy.

Rachel Simmons

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Adriana Lima

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jean Baudrillard

It is jealousy that leads people to tarnish you.

Priyadarshan

Love is that 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 jealousy.

Robert A. Heinlein

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Joseph P. Kennedy

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Heidi Klum

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.

Chael Sonnen

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Gene Tierney

Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!

Shweta Basu Prasad

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Mary Baker Eddy

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Bob Marley

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johannes Brahms

There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.

Alain de Botton

I could see jealousy coming up, I could see anger, I could see frustration. I could see people's agendas. I could see my kids going wild - because we never had any money, and suddenly, we had money.

Erin Brockovich

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

William Wycherley

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

George Meredith

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Chrissie Hynde

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Francoise Sagan

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Mary Schmich

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Rupert Everett

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

Salvador Dali

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 Byron