28 quotes about Jealousy

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

— Addison, Joseph

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

— Antrim, Minna

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

— Barnes, Djuna

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

— Bowen, Elizabeth

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

— Byron, Lord

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

— Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

— Dangerfield, Rodney

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

— Dryden, John

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

— Eliot, George

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

— Eliot, George

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

— Ellis, Havelock

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

— Foxworthy, Jeff

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.

— Goldman, Emma

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

— Hesiod

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

— Irving, Washington

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had...

— Jong, Erica

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

— La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

— La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

— La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

— La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

— Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

— Luce, Clare Boothe

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

— Meredith, George

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

— Sagan, Francoise

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

— Shakespeare, William

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

— Shaw, George Bernard

Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.

— Unknown, Source

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.

— Wilde, Oscar