Quotes about jealousy

"The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment."

Addison, Joseph on jealousy
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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."

Antrim, Minna on jealousy
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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."

Barnes, Djuna on jealousy   

"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

Bowen, Elizabeth on jealousy
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"Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

Byron, Lord on jealousy   

"Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on jealousy   

"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was."

Dangerfield, Rodney on jealousy   

"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."

Dryden, John on jealousy   

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

Eliot, George on jealousy   

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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."

Eliot, George on jealousy   

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

Ellis, Havelock on jealousy
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"I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did."

Foxworthy, Jeff on jealousy   

"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing."

Goldman, Emma on jealousy
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"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

Hesiod on jealousy   

"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."

Irving, Washington on jealousy
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"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had..."

Jong, Erica on jealousy   

"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on jealousy
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"Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."

Luce, Clare Boothe on jealousy   

"Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl."

Meredith, George on jealousy   

"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

Sagan, Francoise on jealousy
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"I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses."

Shakespeare, William on jealousy   

"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."

Shaw, George Bernard on jealousy   

"Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision."

Unknown, Source on jealousy
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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."

Wilde, Oscar on jealousy
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"When we're in the grasp of certain emotions such as fear, anger, or jealousy, our world becomes very small."

Salzburg, Susan on jealousy