#Jealousy Quotes

“If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.”

“How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!”

“These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.”

“Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.”

“An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.”

“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.”

“Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.”

“And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.”

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

“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”

“The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.”

“Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.”

“For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy”

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

“O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.”

“Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.”

“'Tis not to make me jealousTo say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.”

“I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .”

“Rejoice in the prosperity of others. When you feel contemptuous, or even a twinge of jealousy, toward the accomplishments or life-styles of others, you are harboring negativity where love must reside.”

“But bear in mind your lover's wageIs what your looking-glass can show,And that he will turn green with rageAt all that is not pictured there.”

“When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”

“Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.”

“Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.”

“All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.”

“I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.”

“Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.”

“The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.”

“It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.”

“There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.”

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!”

“Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.”

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”

“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.”

“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”

“He that is jealous is not in love.”

“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”

“Now, she could't help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.”

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

“I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.”

“Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple”

“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”

“jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.”

“Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.”

“Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.”

“I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.”

“There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.”

“Jealousy does not wait for reasons.”

“Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.”

“Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.”

“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart”