Definition of Jealousy

Jealousy

The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.

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Jealousy Quotations

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Washington Irving

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
Helen Rowland

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
James M. Barrie

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong

Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney

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Jealousy Translations

jealousy in Danish is skinsyge
jealousy in Dutch is naijver, jaloezie
jealousy in French is jaluosie
jealousy in German is Eifersucht, Eifersucht, Neid
jealousy in Italian is gelosia
jealousy in Latin is invidia
jealousy in Spanish is celos
jealousy in Swedish is avundsjuka

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