"Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferority complex. Yippee."
— J.R. Ward (Dark Lover)

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."
— Bette Midler

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. "
— Carrie Fisher

"Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.
It was a very long and very green night."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Jealousy is a weak emotion."
— Jay-Z

"Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves."
— Jan Neruda (Prague Tales)

"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. "
— Havelock Ellis

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

"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
— George Eliot (The Mill on the Floss)

"Jealousy is the ket to hatred that opends the door to misery."
— Amber

"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 — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. "
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either."
— Stephen King (The Waste Lands)

"Jealousy will drive you mad!!"
— Moulin Rouge

"Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy. "
— Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South)

"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
— Francois Sagan

"There Will Be People In Your Life Who Want To Bring You Down. Fake Bitches Who Back Stab You To Get What They Want. Who Will Criticize Every Move You Make And Create Drama Over The Tiniest Things. The Sad Thing Is, They Think You Care. They Think They're Better Then You, And They More Than Likely Always Will. It's A Cliche To Say This But It Really Is Just Jealousy. So, Tough It Out. Value Your Real Friends. Stand Up For What You Believe In, Even If It Makes People Hate You. Hold Your Head Up High, Because Remember - They Would Kill To See You Fall"
— Nicole Stacey-O'Reilly

"Chaque fois qu'on produit un effet, on se donne un ennemi. Il faut rester médiocre pour être populaire."
— Oscar Wilde

"A jealous husband is an ugly thing."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"’I’m too strong for the normal man and too jealous once my feelings get started.’"
— Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove)

"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."
— Anne Lamott (Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith)

"Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it."
— Milan Kundera (Laughable Loves)

"If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.""
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)