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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.

Jealousy

William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

4.2 · 34 votes · 106 reads

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

Jealousy

François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

5.0 · 54 votes · 161 reads

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Jealousy

François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

4.9 · 26 votes · 189 reads

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Jealousy

WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

5.0 · 42 votes

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy

Elizabeth Bowen

WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

4.9 · 60 votes · 165 reads

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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy

PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

3.5 · 31 votes

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

Jealousy

François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

4.2 · 49 votes

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

Jealousy

4.5 · 35 votes · 134 reads

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

Jealousy

George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

3.8 · 63 votes

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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.

Jealousy

PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

3.7 · 33 votes

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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Joseph Addison
PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century
4.1 · 46 votes · 178 reads
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century
4.6 · 49 votes · 45 reads
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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.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
3.7 · 62 votes · 98 reads
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
WriterFrench1935 · 20th century
3.6 · 40 votes · 123 reads
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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
4.0 · 7 votes · 138 reads
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