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.
A young ticket should never be envied, they queue for the bus the same as us.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice'.
The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.
You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.
Bear no improper envy, so that thy life may not become tasteless.