Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
- Alexander Pope
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
- Antisthenes
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
- Alexander Pope
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
Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- Buddha
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
- Dr Samuel Johnson
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
- Edmund Spenser
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
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
- Elizabeth E Bowen
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
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot
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
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
- Havelock Ellis
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 envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
- Horace
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
I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
- Jeff Foxworthy
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
- Lawrence Durrell
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
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali
Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.
- William Blake
Never waste jealousy on a real man, it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
- John Milton
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden
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
So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
- William Shakespeare
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
Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
Never waste jealousy on a real man, it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
- William Shakespeare
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
