Elizabeth Bowen :
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Emma Goldman :
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Erica Jong: 
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had...

Iris Murdoch:
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Dolores Hitchens: 
Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

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