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If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Marie de France on jealousy

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel on jealousy

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells on jealousy

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis on jealousy

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran on jealousy

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley on jealousy

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Joseph P. Kennedy on jealousy

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza on jealousy

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Washington Irving on jealousy

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Jude Law on jealousy

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.
Harriet Ann Jacobs on jealousy

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes on jealousy

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
Lope de Vega on jealousy

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on jealousy

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian on jealousy

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone on jealousy

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy on jealousy

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol on jealousy

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
Helen Rowland on jealousy

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.
Van Wyck Brooks on jealousy