Quotes

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
-Alexander Pope

Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
-Anonymous Author

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
-Edward Moore

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
-Horace

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
-Lawrence Durrell

Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.
-William Blake

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
-Oscar Wilde

But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
-William Shakespeare

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

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
-Bible

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
-Buddha

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

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!
-Hannah More

But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no more, But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, Corroding every thought, and blasting all Love's paradise.
-James Thomson

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
-Lord Byron

Never waste jealousy on a real man, it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
-George Bernard Shaw

So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
-William Shakespeare

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
-William Shakespeare

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
-William Shakespeare

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
-Alexander Pope

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
-Bible

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
-Dr Samuel Johnson

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.
-Emma Goldman

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
-Havelock Ellis

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
-Jeff Foxworthy

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
-Rodney Dangerfield

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
-John Milton

I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
-William Shakespeare

Never waste jealousy on a real man, it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
-William Shakespeare

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
-Antisthenes

The ear of jealousy heareth all things.
-Bible

Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
-Edmund Spenser

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
-Henry Glassford Bell

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
-Salvador Dali

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
-John Dryden

Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
-William Shakespeare

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy, It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
-William Shakespeare