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“Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time”
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“Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment”
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“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
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“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
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“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves”
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“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...”
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“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
Fulton J. Sheen Quotes |
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“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
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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.”
Henry Glassford Bell Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes 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.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes 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.”
Robert Greene Quotes 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.”
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare Quotes 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.]”
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare Quotes Source: Guesses at Truth
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“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 334)
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“No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty--jealousy.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto I, st. 24, l. 8)
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“Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”
John Milton Quotes 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?”
Edward Moore Quotes 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!”
Hannah More Quotes Source: David and Goliath (pt. V)
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“Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 197)
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“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
Francoise Sagan (pseudonym of Francoise Quoirez) Quotes Source: La Chamade (ch. 9)
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“O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
[Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Fiesco (I, 1)
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“So full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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