Jealousy

Jealousy is an emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, such as a relationship, friendship, or love. Jealousy often consists of a combination of emotions such as anger, sadness, and disgust. It is not to be confused with envy.

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• Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
  • The Bible, Proverbs 27:4.

• Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
  • The Bible, Song of Songs 8:6.

• In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth.
  • The Bible, Zephaniah 1:17-19.

• Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
  • The Bible, The Song of Solomon viii. 6.

• Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
  For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 65.

• Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemies; its wages to be sure of it.
  • Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon (1825).

• Some give out of faith others out of friendship. Do not envy others for the gifts they receive, or you will have no peace of mind by day or by night. Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always.
  • Dhammapada Verse 249-250.

• In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
  • François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665), No. 334.

• Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion into certainty.
  • François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665).

• The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.
  • Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama in Harvard, page 174.

• Nor jealousy
  Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 449.

• So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
  It spills itself in fearing to be spilt!
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 5, line 19.

• 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 (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 146.

• O, beware, my lord of jealousy;
  It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
  The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss,
  Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
  But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er,
  Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 166. ("Fondly loves" in some editions.)

• Trifles light as air
  Are to the jealous confirmations strong
  As proofs of holy writ.
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 322.

• 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 (c. 1603), Act III, scene 4, line 158.

• If I shall be condemn'd
  Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you,
  'Tis rigour, and not law.
  • William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act III, scene 2, line 112.

• Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto VIII, Stanza 40.

• Quark: "...it's good to want things"
  Odo: "Even things you can't have?"
  Quark: "Especially things I can't have"
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 1.9, The Passenger (Feb. 22, 1993)

• 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, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 1,073.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.

• 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.
  • H. G. Bell, The Uncle. Written for and recited by Henry Irving.

• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
  • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book I, Chapter X.

• Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
  • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book VI, Chapter X.

• Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow,
  The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!
  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phœbus did avow
  He would be coy, and would not love at all;
  Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,
  Than love united to a jealous thought.
  • Robert Greene, Jealousy.

• 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.
  • J. C. and A. W. Hare, Guesses at Truth.

• Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.
  • Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
  • La Bruyère.

• No true love there can be without
  Its dread penalty—jealousy.
  • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto I, Stanza 24, line 8.

• Can't I another's face commend,
  Or to her virtues be a friend,
  But instantly your forehead louers,
  As if her merit lessen'd yours?
  • Edward Moore, The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat, Fable 9, line 5.

• O jealousy,
  Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
  Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue
  Of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness,
  And drinks my spirit up!
  • Hannah More, David and Goliath, Part V.

• Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
  • Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.

• O, der alles vergrössernden Eifersucht.
  • O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
  • Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, I, 1.