Quotes about Jealousy

  1. Jealousy is a poorly disguised need for power and control. Jealous people are tyrannical, controlling, domineering and completely insensitive to the impact of their actions on their partner . - Phil MacGrow .

  2. If the mind is jealous and envious, you will feel very uncomfortable—like you have a big stone in your mind. - Zopa Rinpoche.

  3. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. - Robert A. Heinlein .

  4. Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. - Oscar Wilde.

  5. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Henry Ellis.

  6. Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

  7. Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. - Mary Schmich.

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