Jealousy Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 5



The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.
William Shakespeare

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington

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

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone

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

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.
George Eliot

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

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.
Sacha Guitry

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.
Emily Eden

Do not envy a sinner; you don’t know what disaster awaits him.
Bible

Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.
William Blake

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Dorothy Corkville Briggs

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

When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.
Henry Fielding

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.
Djuna Barnes

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

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. Hare and J.C. Hare

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
William Shakespeare

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
William Shakespeare

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
Ruth Rendell

Never love unless you can Bear with all the faults of man: Men will sometimes jealous be, Though but little cause they see.
Thomas Campion

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Richard Le Gallienne

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