Famous Quotes

"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

Harriet Ann Jacobs on Jealousy

More quotes about Jealousy

• "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 on Jealousy

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

  Robert A. Heinlein on Jealousy

• "I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do."

  Heidi Klum on Jealousy

• "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 on Jealousy

• "Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."

  Johannes Brahms on Jealousy

More quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

• "There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

• "Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

• "There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

• "But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."

• "The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."