101 private quotes tagged jealousy

“Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.” — Arthur Golden

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“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.” — John Dryden

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“Jealousy is the grave of affection.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.” — Germaine Greer

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“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.” — Herodotus

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“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.” — Ruth Rendell

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“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.” — Salvador Dali

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“Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.” — Aaron Carter

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“The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.” — Dorothy Corkville Briggs

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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.” — Milan Kundera

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“That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.” — James M. Barrie

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“Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.” — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.” — David Seabury

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“People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.” — Kristin Bauer van Straten

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“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.” — Richard Le Gallienne

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

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“But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.” — Cheryl Tiegs

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“I do not say anything from jealousy.” — Anna Held

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“Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.” — George Byron

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“I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.” — Brooke Burke

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“Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?” — Mary Douglas

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“The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.” — Richard Perle

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“There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.” — Chris O'Dowd

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“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.” — James Beattie

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“You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.” — Abbott L. Lowell

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