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Jealousy counteth its suspicions.
The jealous housewife is affection's direst foe.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Song of Solomon 8:6
When mistrust enters, love departs.
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent,
But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Proverbs 27:4
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 enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
Colton
In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to
another.
Rochefoucauld
Trifles light as air, are to the jealous confirmations strong
as proofs of holy writ.
Shakespeare
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make
little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
Cervantes
Jealousy is the injured lover's hell.
Milton
The jealous man poisons his own banquet, and then eats it.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases
entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Rochefoucauld
All other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable
logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face,
and ignores them utterly, and says she knows a great deal
better than they can tell her.
A. Helps
Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of
angels.
Boufflers
A jealous man always finds more than he looks for.
Mlle. Scudery
O, Jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy venom preys on my
vitals, turns the healthy hue of my fresh cheek to haggard
sallowness, and drinks my spirit up.
H. More
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.
Hare
Oh, beware of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster, which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
Shakespeare
It is with jealousy as with the gout; when such distempers are
in the blood there is never any security against their breaking
out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least
suspected.
Fielding
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, that canker-worm,
that monster, jealousy, which eats the heart and feeds upon
the gall, turning all love's delight to misery, through fear of
losing his felicity.
Spenser
All jealousy must be strangled in its birth, or time will soon
make it strong enough to overcome the truth.
Davenant
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare; but
jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for
jealousy can feed on that which is bitter, no less than on that
which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by
affection.
It is said that jealousy is love, but I deny it; for though it
may be procured by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy
extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.
Margaret of Navarre
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it.
Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our
uneasiness under it.
Shenstone
To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of
friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds; prone
to distrust, because apt to deceive.
G. Lansdowne
He who is next heir to supreme power, is always suspected and
hated by him who actually wields it.
Tacitus
That anxious torture may I never feel, which doubtful watches
o'er a wandering heart.
Mary B. Tighe
Jealousy, says Rochefoucauld, is in some sort rational and
just; it aims at the preservation of a good which we think
belongs to us. It is in this sense that God is said to be a
jealous God, because he is earnestly, and as it were
passionately desirous of our supreme love, and reverence, and
service.
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