"The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment."

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"The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros."

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"The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections."

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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

Bowen, Elizabeth on Jealousy
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"Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

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"Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight."

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"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was."

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"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."

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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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"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."

Eliot, George on Jealousy
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"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."

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"I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did."

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"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."

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"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

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"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."

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"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had..."

Jong, Erica on Jealousy
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

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"Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

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"Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it."

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"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

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"The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."

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"Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."

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"Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl."

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"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

Sagan, Francoise on Jealousy
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"I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses."

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"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."

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"Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision."

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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."

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