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Jealousy
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“Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.”
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“I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?' ”
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“Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness which destroyed appetite and peace.”
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“Jealousy is the grave of affection. ”
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“Jealousy is the tie that binds — and binds — and binds.”
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“... jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind ... ”
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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
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“One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.”
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“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.”
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“... jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.”
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“But that is just like the stupid jealousy of the ordinary husband! They imagine everything and understand nothing.”
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“The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!”
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“Jealousy can be like that, as anxious to be near to its object as love can be.”
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“Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.”
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“Jealousy is born with love, but does not always die with love.”
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“... to jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
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“ A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.”
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“There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.”
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“It is surely one of the bitterest curses of that most torturing of all passions — jealousy — that it leads the sufferer persistently to seek, with craving eyes and ears, the sights and sounds that madden most.”
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“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had ...”
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“... is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?”
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“Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.”
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“... anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.”
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“Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.”
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“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies ...”
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“I believe she would be jealous of a fine day, if her husband praised it.”
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“Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.”
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“Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.”
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“There are two dogs who stand guard in your stomach. Their names in English are jealousy and fear. One guardian dog is jealously fearful, the other fearfully jealous. They are medicine to protect you.”
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“... jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.”
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“... jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.”
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“Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.”
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“Jealousy exaggerates ...”
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“... the jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.”
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“Blind jealousy and blind trust are equally dangerous.”
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“Jealousy leaves no time to be bored; does it even leave time to grow old?”
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“... is there such a thing as nonphysical jealousy?”
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“Jealousy is not born of love! It is a child of selfishness and distrust ...”
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“The jealousy of the dead is lasting!”
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“... Jealousy, the old Worm that bites ...”
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“... jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.”
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“The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.”
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“... it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.”
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“Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...”
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“Poor Janet, devoured by jealousy. The only deadly sin that carries no pleasure in the committing.”
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“When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.”
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“Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.”
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“Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?”
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“... my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.”
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“Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.”
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“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”
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“There never was a passion in this world, there never will be one, so fantastic, so delusive, so powerful as jealousy.”
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“Jealousy discolored life, possessiveness insulted individualism.”
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“Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.”
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“Jealousy is the weed that seems to shoot up in the garden where sisters grow.”
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“Jealousy ... lies somewhere in the gray area between sanity and madness.”
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“... jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.”
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“Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn.”
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“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
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“... jealousy is cruel as the grave.”
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“Jealousy is the homage that inferiority pays to merit.”
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“Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.”
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“... jealousy is at times more powerful than love itself ...”
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“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
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“That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.”
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“Jealousy is the worst enemy of love ...”