Who surpasses or subdues
mankind, must look down on
the hate of those below.
?Lord Byron
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous.
The other day she looked at my calendar
and wanted to know who May was.
?Rodney Dangerfield
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
?John Dryden
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
In jealousy there is more
of self-love than love.
?Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are possessed by a mad
devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
?Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
It is not love that is
blind, but jealousy.
?Lawrence Durrell
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
Never waste jealousy on a real man:
it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
?George Bernard Shaw
The thermometer of success is merely
the jealousy of the malcontents.
?Salvador Dali
Anger and jealousy can no more bear
to lose sight of their objects than love.
?George Eliot
As iron is eaten by rust,
so are the envious
consumed by envy.
?Antisthenes
Jealousy is cruel as the
grave: the coals
thereof are coals of fire.
?Bible
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
The ear of jealousy
heareth all things.
?Bible
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.
?William Blake
Jealousy is no more than feeling
alone against smiling enemies.
?Elizabeth E. Bowen
Do not overrate what
you have received,
nor envy others.
He who envies others does
not obtain peace of mind.
?Buddha
Anger and jealousy can no more bear
to lose sight of their objects than love.
?George Eliot
The envious man grows lean at
the success of his neighbour.
?Horace
Whoever envies another
confesses his superiority.
?Dr Samuel Johnson
Jealousy lives upon doubts,
it becomes madness or ceases entirely
as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
?François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock The meat it feeds on.
?William Shakespeare
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
?William Shakespeare
The venom clamours of a jealous
woman poison more deadly than
a mad dog's tooth.
?William Shakespeare
