“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.”
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.
“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
“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.”
“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
“I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.”
“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.”
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
“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.”
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
“That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”