Joseph Addison Quotes

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Envy bestrides praise.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.