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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw

In jealousy there is more self-love than love. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

Envy is a waste of time. ~Author Unknown

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ~Baltasar Gracian

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese

He that is not jealous is not in love. ~St. Augustine

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~Elizabeth Bowen

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb

I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. ~Astrid Alauda

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ~Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. ~Maya Angelou

Jealousy is the great exaggerator. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. ~Mme. de Puixieux

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. ~A.R. Orage

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot

[T]he ear of jealousy heareth all things. ~The Bible (Apocrypha), Wisdom of Solomon 1:10

Jealousy is a crutch. ~C. Astrid Weber

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~Honore de Balzac

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. ~Leslie Grimutter

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Never love unless you canBear with all the faults of man:Men will sometimes jealous be,Though but little cause they see.~Thomas Campion, "Never Love"

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Trifles light as airAre to the jealous confirmations strongAs proofs of holy writ.~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. ~Dorothy Dix

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~Mark Twain

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ~Aeschylus

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.~William Shakespeare, Othello

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. ~Elizabeth O'Connor

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. ~Ovid

A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ~Paul Eldridge

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

Jealousy... is a mental cancer. ~B.C. Forbes

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb

Envy slays itself by its own arrows. ~Author Unknown

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. ~William Shakespeare