Jealousy Quotes
Shakespeare leads by a long way, followed by Giannina Braschi, Horace, Seneca and La Rochefoucauld. George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) is the best-sourced writer here, with two lines: anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love, and jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. Leonardo’s notebooks say envy wounds with false accusations.
Two entries are flagged misattributed. “The living will envy the dead” is credited to Nikita Khrushchev, and a remark that we are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is alive and praising him when he is dead is credited to Mimnermus.
One must have envy of the land of Calvary wet, and soaked by the Blood of Jesus Christ.
You don't envy the best. You learn from them and apply those to your business.
You can't envy something you can't be, can you? You sat and admired what was emerging.
[Envy] is like a fly,
That passes all the body’s soundest parts,
And dwells upon the sore.
Your envy and arrogance were aroused, so you rushed in headlong, as always, like a madman"
My father is a physicist and to some extent, has some physicist's envy for my vocation.
though every friend be fled,
Lo! Envy waits, that lover of the dead.
Lost in Math (Section Physics Envy, Chapter 1 The Hidden Rules of Physics)