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Quotes About Relationships

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
~ Iris Murdoch
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.
~ Tammara Webber
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
~ Minna Antrim
Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.
~ Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.
~ Virginia Woolf
Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.
~ Elinor Glyn
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
~ William Shakespeare
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.
~ Squeak Carnwath
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
~ William Hazlitt
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Why? Why would you do that?" "You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.
~ Sylvia Day
Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.
~ J. A. Jance
I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.
~ Michael Schur
my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.
~ Louise Erdrich
A jealous husband is an ugly thing.
~ Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.
~ Sei Shonagon
when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.
~ John Irving
Jealousy's eyes are green.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
~ Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.
~ David Levithan, Every Day
Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.
~ Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
The jealousy I feel twards Orlando Bloom exists on many levels.
~ Sean Astin