Jealousy Quotes

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble.

Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As, I confess, it is my nature’s plague to spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not).

Jealousy knows more than truth does.[Los celos saben más que la verdad.]

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

We cannot bear the vanity of others because it hurts our own.[Ce qui nous rend la vanité des autres insupportable, c’est qu’elle blesse la nôtre.]

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of Holy Writ.

There’s no jealousy in the grave.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The success of any man, with any woman, is apt to displease even his best friends.[Alternate translation:]There is always something in a man’s success with a woman which is displeasing even to his best friends.[Il y a toujours dans le succès d’un homme auprès d’une femme quelque chose qui déplaît, même aux meilleurs amis de cet homme.]

Our envy always outlasts the happiness of those who inspire it.[Notre envie dure toujours plus longtemps que le bonheur de ceux que nous envions.]