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Quotes About Jealousy

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 jealous.
~ H. L. Mencken
There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.
~ Jeff Douglas
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
~ Quentin Crisp
Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.
~ Marcus Licinius Crassus
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
~ Germaine Greer
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
~ Joseph P. Kennedy
Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.
~ Carolyn Murphy
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
~ Michelangelo
I don't ship anyone. I really don't. I'm not a shipper, but I'm all for men duking it out for a chick.
~ Paul Wesley
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
~ Francis Bacon
Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
~ Francis Bacon
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it
~ John Galliano
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.
~ Jimi Hendrix
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
~ Seneca the Younger
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
~ Jane Austen
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
~ William Penn
How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.
~ Grace Metalious
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
~ Madeleine de Scudery
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
~ Quintus Ennius
The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong:
~ Neal Stephenson
But it is quite obviously a matter of male jealousy. Magnus is ludicrously hyper-masculine in ways that have been bred and trained out of modern-day men and so they have to deprecate his intelligence.
~ Neal Stephenson
Then, again gradually, Gods were given larger roles. The need for protection, for strength, began to supplant the need for wisdom and love. A new kind of love was born in these mythologies. A love which protects with brute force. But it was a love which also covets what it protects; which was jealous of its Goddesses; which now did not simply serve their feminine lusts, but fought and died for them.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
~ Ned Vizzini