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Quotes About Insecurity

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.
~ Megan Hart, Tear You Apart
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.
~ Tammara Webber
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
~ Minna Antrim
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
~ George Gordon Byron
War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
~ F. Paul Wilson, Reprisal
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.
~ Gosho Aoyama, Meitantei Konan
Jealousy 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 Kundera, Laughable Loves
Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.
~ Virginia Woolf
Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
~ Lord Byron
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
~ Franz Grillparzer
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
~ Edmund Burke
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
~ John Dryden
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
~ William Shakespeare
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well.
~ Drake
Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.
~ Helen Nielsen
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Why? Why would you do that?" "You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.
~ Sylvia Day
Envy suggests inferiority.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
~ H. L. Mencken
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.
~ Beth Moore
Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.
~ Kate Nash