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Jealousy quotes

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“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!” William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on” William Shakespeare, Othello

“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.” Anatole France, Penguin Island

“I had absolutely no reason to suspect my wife's fidelity, but jealousy does not wait for reasons.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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The Comedy of Errors (1)
The Mill on the Floss (1)
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