My mother was my first jealous lover.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
—Zach Braff
Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each others backs. It's seriously twisted.
—Melody Carlson in The Jerk Magnet
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
—Aeschylus
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
—Bible
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
—Erica Jong
It is better to be envied than pitied.
—Herodotus
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
—Robert Bringle
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
—Sallust
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
—William Shakespeare
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
—Robert Herrick
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
—Oscar Wilde