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Quotations by Subject: Jealousy
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
Our envy of others devours us most of all.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.: Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.: Bible, Old Testament
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.: Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
It is better to be envied than pitied.: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.: Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3


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