JEALOUSY QUOTES
quotations about jealousy
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
BIBLE
Song of Solomon 8:6
Jealousy is always born with love, but doesn't always die with it.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
Jealousy is a gin which we set to catch serpents, but which, as soon as we have caught them, sting us. Like the fool, that finding a box of poison, tastes, and is poisoned indeed.
OWEN FELTHAM
Resolves: Divine, Moral and Political
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss
Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always.
BUDDHA
Dhammapada
The subject of the average man's jealousy is his peer -- the average man. The average man is not jealous of the (1997-2010) Tiger Woods who won 14 majors ... but the guy in his weekend foursome who once broke 80.
THE DAILY RECKONING
"Bitcoin Envy: Very Average Jealousy", Bullion Vault, January 19, 2018
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Stranger in a Strange Land
Love often re-illumines his extinguished flame at the torch of jealousy.
MARGUERITE GARDINER
Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
Where jealousy is the jailer, many break the prison, it opening more ways to wickedness than it stoppeth; so that where it findeth one, it maketh ten dishonest.
THOMAS FULLER
The Holy State and the Profane State
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS
"Husbands and Wives", Little Essays of Love and Virtue
Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
MME. DE PUISIEUX
attributed, Day's Collacon
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Jealousy would cut off the hair of beauty, to render her ugly like herself.
AL-MAGHRIBI
attributed, Day's Collacon
The jealous feed on jealousy, yet never grow fat.
YORUBA PROVERB
Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.
ARTHUR LYNCH
Moods of Life
He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
ANAÏS NIN
Delta of Venus
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
J. R. WARD
Dark Lover