Jealousy proverbs

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◆ A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

- Aristotle99

◆ Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

- B. C. Forbes99

◆ To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

- Francoise Sagan99

◆ Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

- Fulton J. Sheen99

◆ Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

- Mary Schmich99

◆ As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

- Antisthenes99

◆ I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

- Milla Jovovich99

◆ There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

- Jude Law99

◆ Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

- Johannes Brahms99

◆ Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

- Oliver Stone99

◆ People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

- Summer Altice99

◆ He that is jealous is not in love.

- Saint Augustine99

◆ Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

- Elizabeth Bowen99

◆ 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.

- Clyde Tombaugh99