“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
Jealousy is the emotion nobody wants to admit to but everybody recognizes. These quotes examine envy, comparison, possessiveness, and the surprisingly useful information that jealousy can reveal about what you actually want.
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
“I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”
“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
“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.”