I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. – Antisthenes
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. – Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. – Helen Rowland
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. – Van Wyck Brooks
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. – Ludovico Ariosto
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. – Arthur Golden
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. – John Dryden
Jealousy is the grave of affection. – Mary Baker Eddy
Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it. – Germaine Greer
But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods. – Herodotus
The knives of jealousy are honed on details. – Ruth Rendell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. – Salvador Dali
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. – Lord Byron
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
