quotations about jealousy
Jealousy is a heavy and grievous enemy to the holy estate of matrimony.
ST. ANSELM
attributed, Day's Collacon
Love expels jealousy.
THALES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH
Letters to a Young Artist
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
Jealousy is like a polished glass held to the lips when life is in doubt; if there be breath, it will catch the damp and show it.
JOHN DRYDEN
All for Love
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Fiesco
Jealousy is tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.
H. SMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is better to have a husband without love than with jealousy.
GUICCIARDINI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
MAHATMA GANDHI
An Autobiography