“Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.”
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jealousy
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“You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.”
“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
“I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.”
“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“More men die of jealousy than of cancer.”
“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
“I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.”
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.”
“From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.”
“Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“Jealousy is the grave of affection.”
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.”
“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”