Famous Quotes - Tags - Jealousy

  • ...he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself. He will get wounds and... More
  • a man sleeps where fire leapt down and she learns through his arm
    That other sun, the jealous... More
  • All I have to do
    is hear his name
    and every hair on my body
    just bristles with... More
  • Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. More
  • Always remember, Peggy, it’s matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason. More
  • Are you jealous of her?
    Will you refuse to come till I have sent
    Her terribly away,... More
  • As great trees attract the winds, so great fame attracts envy. More
  • As if he were
    a pot of dates
    in a blind man’s hand,
    Mothers,
    they pilfer my... More
  • as she fleeth afore
    Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore
    Since in a net I seek to... More
  • Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting. More
  • Both envy and jealousy are common experiences. They are entirely different feelings, one a desire... More
  • But bear in mind your lover’s wage
    Is what your looking-glass can show,
    And that he... More
  • But jealous souls will not be answered so;
    They are not ever jealous for the cause,
    But... More
  • Calmed by my pleading,
    she continued to list your crimes,
    found that ten fingers... More
  • Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons,
    Which at the first are scarce found to... More
  • Don’t you think he fits my shoes very well, your ladyship? More
  • Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. More
  • Envy grieves. Jealousy rages. More
  • Even as a bride
    has limbs that steal one’s heart
    because of their tenderness,
    so... More
  • For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge. He will... More
  • Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend
    From jealousy! More
  • He was as jealous of his power as an impotent lover of his mistress, without activity of mind... More
  • Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me! More
  • I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy. More
  • I do suspect the lusty Moor
    Hath leaped into my seat; the thought whereof
    Doth, like a... More
  • I had rather be a toad,
    And live upon the vapour of a dungeon
    Than keep a corner in the... More
  • If any man drew near
    When I was young,
    I thought, “He holds her dear,”
    And shook... More
  • If that slut
    stepped on your foot
    just to get out of the muck,
    then, Lucky... More
  • Iknowwhata mother tiger does when she’s upset. She eats her young. More
  • In contrast with envy, which usually occurs between two people and is focused upon another... More
  • In spite of the convenient textbook criteria that specialists set forth, the distinction between... More
  • Jalous he was, and heeld hire narwe in cage,
    For she was wilde and yong, and he was old, More
  • Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. More
  • Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment. More
  • Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves. More
  • Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. More
  • Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. More
  • Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. More
  • Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the... More
  • Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either... More
  • Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that... More
  • Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved’s innermost thoughts. More
  • Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s... More
  • Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest... More
  • Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves. More
  • Jealousy is the fear of comparison. More
  • Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste. More
  • Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. More
  • Love is sinister,
    is mean to us in separation;
    makes our thin bodies thinner.
    This... More
  • Lovely,
    this plowman’s son
    with the good-looking wife
    has gone so thin over... More
  • Lovers, the conclusion is
    Doubled sighs and jealousies
    In a single heart that... More
  • Lucky Man,
    it’s true that she’s virtuous
    and has a beautiful body.
    And it’s... More
  • Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. More
  • Nine out of ten women are jealous. More
  • No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who... More
  • Nor jealousy
    Was understood, the injured lover’s hell. More
  • Not poppy, nor mandragora,
    Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world
    Shall ever medicine... More
  • Nothing can or shall content my soul
    Till I am evened with him, wife for wife,
    Or failing... More
  • Now I perceive that she hath made compare
    Between our statures; she hath urged her... More
  • O curse of marriage,
    That we can call these delicate creatures ours
    And not their appetites! More
  • O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
    It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
    The meat it... More
  • O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
    It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock
    The meat... More
  • O, what damned minutes tells he o’er
    Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves! More
  • One rich family is envied by a thousand others. More
  • People may show jealousy, but hide their envy. More
  • Poor and content is rich, and rich enough,
    But riches fineless is as poor as winter
    To... More
  • Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, -They have ascribed to David ten... More
  • Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death;... More
  • Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
    And me supposed to be ignorant,
    Or find it... More
  • Such is my jealousy and such my hate
    though I would state it otherwise. More
  • Such is my jealousy
    (that I discreetly veil
    with just my smile)
    that I would clear so... More
  • The best part of myself, that’s what you are. Do you think I’m going to leave it to the... More
  • The Count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and... More
  • The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed,... More
  • The venom clamors of a jealous woman
    Poisons more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth. More
  • The word “jealousy” is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the... More
  • The “Green-Eyed Monster” causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the... More
  • Then must you speak
    Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
    Of one not easily jealous,... More
  • There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight... More
  • There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover’s being jealous. More
  • There is something in the breast of almost every man, which at bottom takes offense at the... More
  • There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good... More
  • These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
    The majesty that shuts his burning eye:
    The... More
  • These things shine:
    The sports of a lord,
    the jealousy of a beloved woman,
    the... More
  • Think’st thou I’d make a life of jealousy,
    To follow still the changes of the... More
  • Thy jealous fits
    Have scared thy husband from the use of wits. More
  • To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. More
  • To-night she will spread her brown hair on his pillow,
    But I shall be hearing the harsh cries... More
  • Trifles light as air
    Are to the jealous confirmation strong
    As proofs of holy writ. More
  • Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be.... More
  • We are in hell and I will have my turn! More
  • We have defined envy as a feeling of pain that a person experiences when he sees someone else... More
  • What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no... More
  • What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours
    Courts thee on roses in some pleasant... More
  • Writers are as jealous as pigeons. More

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