101 private quotes tagged jealousy

“It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.” — William Graham Sumner

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“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.” — George Meredith

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“Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.” — Adrian Lyne

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“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.” — Conrad Veidt

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“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.” — Martina Hingis

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“When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.” — Jeff Ross

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“On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.” — Henry Lawson

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

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“I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.” — Nas

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“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.” — Elizabeth Bowen

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“What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.” — Pete Fountain

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“It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.” — Rupert Everett

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“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” — Saint Augustine

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“I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.” — Keira Knightley

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“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.” — Ricky Williams

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“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.” — William Wycherley

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“In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.” — Chrissie Hynde

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“Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.” — Jonathan Raban

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“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.” — Max Frisch

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“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.” — William Shenstone

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“Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!” — Sylvia Kristel

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“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!” — Marie de France

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“There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.” — Jude Law

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“There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.” — Lope de Vega

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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... 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.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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