Being Jealous Quotes

• His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body. My flesh tightened like a harpstring. I swallowed hard against the wave of liquid heat. "How can I possibly be jealous when I know you spent your time grieving for me, Dante?

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Jealous, Eye, Grieving

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• If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Husband, Jealous, Married

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• If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Fear, Hate, Jealous

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• I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Jealous, Bird, Singing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous of certain tenets of philosophy, such as those of Epicurus, which, denying a divine existence, and consequently a providence and a future state, seem to loosen, in a great measure, the ties of morality, and may be supposed, for that reason, pernicious to the peace of civil society.

  David Hume

  Wise, Philosophy, Jealous

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

  Mary Schmich

  Jealousy, Waste, Wasting Time

  "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young". Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

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• Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

  Kim Kardashian

  Jealousy, Hater, Rain

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• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  Gary Allan

  Jealousy, Stars, Moon

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• Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Jealousy, Envy, Catholic

  "Walk with God".

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• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Jealousy, Mistake

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Jealousy, Loneliness, Envy

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 2, ch. 8

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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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

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

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

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• The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

  Bette Midler

  Funny, Success, Jealousy

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• Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

  William Hazlitt

  Jealousy, Space, Envy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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  You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jealousy, Thinking, Your Jealous

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 12, 2016

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

  H. G. Wells

  Jealousy, Witty, Humorous

  The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2

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• The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Jealousy, Hater

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

  Aristotle

  Jealousy, Men, Envy

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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.

  Maya Angelou

  Jealousy, Envy, Romance

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.60, Bantam

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Jealousy, Envy

  Lawrence Durrell (1957). “Justine: By Lawrence Durrell”

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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