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3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

3 December 2020 Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

3 December 2020 Anna Held

I do not say anything from jealousy.

3 December 2020 Nas

I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.

3 December 2020 Pete Fountain

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

3 December 2020 B. C. Forbes

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

3 December 2020 J. M. Barrie

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

3 December 2020 Saint Augustine

He that is jealous is not in love.

3 December 2020 William Wycherley

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

3 December 2020 Lope de Vega

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

3 December 2020 William Penn

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

3 December 2020 James Beattie

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it’s a struggle, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy.

3 December 2020 Martina Hingis

That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there’s more jealousy in Switzerland because it’s so little and they don’t have so many athletes.

3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh

That’s the way I got along in life. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it.

3 December 2020 Ludovico Ariosto

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

3 December 2020 Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

3 December 2020 George Washington

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

3 December 2020 Dorothy Corkville Briggs

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

3 December 2020 Erica Jong

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

3 December 2020 Washington Irving

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

3 December 2020 William Graham Sumner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

3 December 2020 Conrad Veidt

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

3 December 2020 Paul Eldridge

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

3 December 2020 Arthur Golden

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield

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

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