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The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife,
That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
Author: Henry Glassford Bell
Source: The Uncle, written for and recited by Henry Irving
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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 65)
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their
objects than love.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. I, ch. X)
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience
that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VI, ch. X)
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Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow,
The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!
Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow
He would be coy, and would not love at all;
Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,
Than love united to a jealous thought.
Author: Robert Greene
Source: Jealousy
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Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the
parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest
till it has poisoned the parent.
Author: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Source: Guesses at Truth
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Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
[Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]
Author: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Source: Guesses at Truth
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In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (no. 334)
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No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty--jealousy.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto I, st. 24, l. 8)
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Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 449)
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Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead louers,
As if her merit lessen'd yours?
Author: Edward Moore
Source: The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat (fable 9, l. 5)
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O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue
Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,
And drinks my spirit up!
Author: Hannah More
Source: David and Goliath (pt. V)
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 197)
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Author: Francoise Sagan (pseudonym of Francoise Quoirez)
Source: La Chamade (ch. 9)
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O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
[Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Fiesco (I, 1)
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at IV, v)
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I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not), that your wisdom yet
From one that so imperfectly conjects
Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts--suspects, yet strongly loves!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Emilia at III, iv)
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If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake, I tell you
'Tis rigor and not law.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Hermione at III, ii)
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Hermione at III, ii)
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
Author: Edmund Spenser
Source: The Faerie Queene (bk. I, canto VIII, st. 40)
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But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,
'Tis then delightful misery no more,
But agony unmix'd, incessant gall,
Corroding every thought, and blasting all
Love's paradise.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 1,073)
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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Author: Lord Byron
Source: None
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
Source: None
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
Author: John Dryden
Source: None
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Author: Havelock Ellis
Source: None
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I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Source: None
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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
Source: None
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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.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Author: Lawrence Durrell
Source: None
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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.
Author: Emma Goldman
Source: None
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Author: Salvador Dali
Source: None
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
Author: Antisthenes
Source: None
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Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Author: Bible
Source: None
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Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Author: Bible
Source: None
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The ear of jealousy heareth all things.
Author: Bible
Source: None
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Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.
Author: William Blake
Source: None
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Author: Elizabeth E. Bowen
Source: None
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Author: Buddha
Source: None
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Author: Dr Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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