“Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.”
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“The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
“That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
“Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.”
“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.”
“People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.”
“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”
“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.”
“But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.”
“I do not say anything from jealousy.”
“I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.”
“Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?”
“The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.”
“There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.”
“No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.”
“You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.”
“It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.”
“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”