JEALOUSY

Related Subjects: Enemy, Envy, Hatred, Love, Rivalry, Suspicion

1. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.—Bible, The Song of Solomon 8:6

2. Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
   For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy,
   Thou tyrant of the mind!—DRYDEN, Song of Jealousy
   

4. Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.—DRYDEN, The Hind & the Panther
   

5. Jealousy is inborn in women's hearts.—EURIPIDES, Andromache
   

6. A jealous woman believes everything her passion suggests.—JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
   

7. Jealousy is said to be the off­spring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.—A. W. & J. C. HARE, Guesses at Truth
   

8. First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;
   If she will do 't she will; and there's an end on 't,
   But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
   Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.—AARON HILL, Zara
   

9. There is more self-love than love in jealousy.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

10. Jealousy is nourished by doubt, and becomes madness or ends when it passes from doubt to certainty.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

11. Nor jealousy
    Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

12. Can't I another's face commend,
    And to her virtues be a friend,
    But instantly your forehead lowers,
    As if her merit lessen'd yours?—EDWARD MOORE, The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat
    

13. All jealous women are mad.—PINERO, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
    

14. Love being jealous, makes a good eye look asquint.—Proverb
    

15. A jealous man's horns hang in his eyes.—Proverb
    

16. O jealousy thou magnifier of trifles!—SCHILLER, Fiesco
    

17. I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbery cock-pigeon over his
    hen.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

18. The venom clamours of a jealous woman
    Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.—SHAKESPEARE, The Comedy of Errors
    

19. Think'st thou I'ld make of life a jealousy
    To follow still the changes of the moon
    With fresh suspicions?—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

20. Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,
    As, I confess, it is my nature's plague
    To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
    Shapes faults that are not.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

21. One not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
    Perplexed in the extreme.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

22. 'Tis not to make me jealous
    To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
    Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

23. Jealous souls will not be answer'd so;
    They are not jealous for the cause,
    But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster
    Begot upon itself, born on itself.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

24. Trifles light as air
    Are to the jealous confirmations strong
    As proofs of holy writ.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

25. O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
    It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
    The meat it feeds on.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

26. Jealousy's eyes are green.—SHELLEY, Swellfoot the Tyrant
    

27. Jealousy, at any rate, is one of the consequences of love; you may like it or not, at pleasure; but there it is.—STEVENSON, On Falling in Love

28. Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!—OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
    

29. Hunger, Revenge, to sleep are petty foes,
    But only Death the jealous eyes can close.—WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, Love in a Wood