“Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.”
William Shakespeare
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Jealousy Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · JEALOUSY
Jealousy Quotes
Read the best jealousy quotes on envy, insecurity and letting go from Shakespeare, La Rochefoucauld, Socrates, Thiruvalluvar, the Bible and more. Wise words on a tricky emotion.
“I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; and on the proof, there is no more but this: away at once with love or jealousy!”
William Shakespeare
TrustEvidence
“Oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not.”
William Shakespeare
InsecurityImagination
“Envy has no place in the celestial choir.”
Plato
EnvySpirituality
“It is better to be envied than pitied.”
Herodotus
SuccessEnvy
“Envy is sorrow for another's good.”
Thomas Aquinas
EnvyDefinition
“Envy is the diabolical sin.”
Saint Augustine
EnvyVice
“Envious people die, but envy never.”
Moliere
EnvyHuman Nature
“Envy and hatred are always united.”
Jean de La Bruyere
EnvyHatred
“Envy is hatred, insofar as it so affects a man that he is saddened by another's good fortune and rejoices in another's misfortune.”
Baruch Spinoza
EnvyPhilosophy
“Envy is secret admiration.”
Soren Kierkegaard
EnvyAdmiration
“Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; but, like a shadow, proves the substance true.”
Alexander Pope
SuccessCritics
“The silence of the envious is too noisy.”
Kahlil Gibran
EnvySilence
“Keep your critic close; give him a hut in your own courtyard. Without soap or water, he will wash your nature clean.”
Kabir
CriticsGrowth
“The envious, the malicious, the discontented, the wrathful, the ever-suspicious, and those who depend on others for a living: these six are ever miserable.”
Vidura (The Mahabharata)
UnhappinessWisdom
“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.”
English Proverb
ComparisonContentment
“Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets.”
The Bible (Numbers 11:29)
GenerosityEnvy
“And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.”
The Bible (1 Samuel 18:9)
JealousyBible Stories
“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?”
The Bible (Matthew 20:15)
FairnessEnvy
“For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.”
The Bible (Mark 15:10)
EnvyInjustice
“And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt.”
The Bible (Acts 7:9)
SiblingsEnvy
“Living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.”
The Bible (Titus 3:3)
HatredChange
“For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.”
The Bible (Psalm 73:3)
ComparisonFaith
“Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 9:6)
MortalityPerspective
“For the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”
The Bible (Exodus 34:14)
FaithDevotion