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Jealousy Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more…
- Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
- Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
More Jealousy Quotes
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- He that is jealous is not in love. — Saint Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about… — Joy Behar
- Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn
- Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce
- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus