Quotations about Jealousy

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