Quotes about Jealousy

“Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.”

“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.”

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

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

“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”

“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”

“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”