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