quotations about jealousy
Jealousy is a heavy and grievous enemy to the holy estate of matrimony.
ST. ANSELM
attributed, Day's Collacon
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Jealousy is one of the meanest, but not the least powerful, of the unclean spirits that infest modern society.
C. MIDDLETON
"Minor Morals", Blackwood's Magazine, June 1853
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Fiesco
It is better to have a husband without love than with jealousy.
GUICCIARDINI
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 tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.
H. SMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
MAHATMA GANDHI
An Autobiography