“ Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 628
“ 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. ”
- Djuna Barnes- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it. ”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves. ”
- William Penn- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
- 2.2K
“ There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealously. ”
- Lope de Vega- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did. ”
- Jeff Foxworthy- Copy
- 539
“ Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. ”
- Mike Nichols- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring. ”
- Larry Rivers- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. ”
- Paul of Tarsus- Copy
- 716
“ Everything is a gift of the universe — even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment. ”
- Ken Keyes Jr.- Copy
- 283
“ My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. ”
- Irving Layton- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 196
“ JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2K
“ If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. ”
- Cyril James- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I have a lifetime appointment, and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. ”
- Thurgood Marshall- Copy
- 678
“ I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ”
- Jeff Foxworthy- Copy
- 620
“ No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy — unless you let him. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations. ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Portuguese, as early as 1710, had a fair knowledge of the Amazons; but the information gathered by their Government, from various expeditions undertaken on a grand scale, was long withheld from the rest of the world, through the jealous policy which ruled in their colonial affairs. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
- 962
“ Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can. ”
- Buck Owens- Copy
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