- Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women’s husbands.
Oscar Wilde - It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus - Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld - So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare - Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth E. Bowen - Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Dr. Samuel Johnson - The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.
William Shakespeare - Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha - The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
Horace - Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong - Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw - It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
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