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Robert Anson Heinlein A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Anthony Storr The word ???jealousy??? is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses
Aristotle Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Rudyard Kipling There's no jealousy in the grave.
H. L. Mencken Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
Salvador Dali The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Mason Cooley Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved???s innermost thoughts.
Karl Kraus A man???s jealousy is a social institution; a woman???s prostitution is an instinct.
George Eliot Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., St. 24 No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.
William Shakespeare So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. v., Line 449. Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
Havelock Ellis Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
William Shakespeare O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3. O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
Swami Vivekananda Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
Bible For jealousy arouses a husband???s fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge. He will accept no compensation, and refuses a bribe no matter how great.
La Rochefoucauld Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
George Orwell Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
General George Patton Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 5. For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. POPE: Satire ii., Line 159. So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Joan Didion To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one???s sister and a stranger in a
Emma Goldman 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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
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.
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
"How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!" - Shakespeare
"I'll ignore that jealousy-inspired wisecrack." -- Margaret
"Jealousy is the weapon - you kill me."
Love is the 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 jealou
In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.

 

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