So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.
It was a very long and very green night.
Tags: jealousy
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
J.R. WardMen are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
Jan NerudaTags: men women jealousy relationships
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
Françoise SaganA jealous husband is an ugly thing.
Keith AblowTags: jealousy
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
Elizabeth GaskellJealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.
Milan KunderaTags: jealousy
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
Ayn RandTags: jealousy rand parasitism
Love" is a 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. HeinleinTags: love selflessness jealousy
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