JEALOUSY QUOTES II
quotations about jealousy
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
APHRA BEHN
The History of Agnes de Castro
A jealous man's horns hang in his eyes.
TAMIL PROVERB
Envy and jealousy, twin sisters, come with the cunning of the fox to steal away our peace and happiness.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
SALVADOR DALI
Conversations with Dali
The heart being once infected with jealousy, the sleep is unbroken and dreams prove unquiet; the night is confused thoughts and cares; the day is woe, vexation, and misery.
MATILDA A. PLANCHE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.
ROLAND BARTHES
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
In jealousy there is more love of self than of anyone else.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they are jealous.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
Jealousy is a kind of civil war in the soul, where judgment and imagination are at perpetual jars. This civil dissension in the mind, like that of the body politic, commits great disorders, and lays all waste. Nothing stands safe in its way; Nature, interest, religion, must yield to its fury. It violates contracts, dissolves society, breaks wedlock, betrays friends and neighbours. No body is good, and every one is either doing or designing them a mischief. It has a venom that more or less rankles wherever it bites: And as it reports fancies or facts, so it disturbs its own house as often as other folks.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Woman is prone by nature to jealousy, and brooks not a rival in the nuptial bed.
EURIPIDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Jealousy and envy are suggestions from the evil god Arimenes; strive to diminish his power, and destroy his works.
ZOROASTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.
SHANNON L. ALDER
attributed, goodreads
Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
BIBLE
Proverbs 27:4
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
Jealousy -- that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
EMIL CIORAN
History & Utopia
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
"Spring", The Seasons
Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.
ARTHYR LYNCH
Moods of Life