Jealousy And Insecurity Quotes

Jealousy And Insecurity Quotes by George Bernard Shaw, Honore de Balzac, George Eliot, Paul Eldridge, Elizabeth Bowen, Aldous Huxley and many others.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honore de Balzac
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Paul Eldridge
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Samuel Johnson
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese
The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.
Gordon Ramsay
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Mark Twain
Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don’t even know.
Drake
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn
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