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Quotes About Envy

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. – Charley Reese

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, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693

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

I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. – Astrid Alauda

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. – Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative – self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it’s a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. – Jennifer James

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. – More Maya Angelou Quotes

Jealousy is the great exaggerator. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Jealousy and love are sisters. – Russian Proverb

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. – Antisthenes Quote

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. – A.R. Orage

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

Jealousy is a crutch. – C. Astrid Weber

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it. -Theodore Roosevelt.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one’s enemy; its wages to be sure of it. -C. C. Colton


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