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Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.
-Danish proverb
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Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.
-Proverb
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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
-Joseph Addison
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
-Aeschylus
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
-Antisthenes
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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
-Minna Antrim
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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
The Art of Rhetoric, sect. 6, ch. 2.11.
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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
-Francis Bacon
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
-Djuna Barnes
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
-John Berger
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Envy and wrath shorten the life. Ecclesiasticus
-Bible
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For jealousy arouses a husband
-Bible
Proverbs 6:34-35
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
-Sir Thomas Browne
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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
-Mason Cooley
City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994)
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one
-Joan Didion, "Vogue", June, 1961
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
-John Dryden
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
-George Eliot
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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
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
-Havelock Ellis
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, ch. 1, 1937
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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about Envy / Jealousy
