Quotes About Jealousy

How all the other passions fleet to air,As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embrac'd despair,And shuddering fear, and green-ey'd jealousy.

William Shakespeare

I would have thee gone;And yet no further than a wanton's bird,Who lets it hop a little from her hand,Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,And with a silk thread plucks it back again,So loving-jealous of his liberty.

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

Out-paramoured the Turk.

But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

William Shakespeare

These are the forgeries of jealousy.

Still harping on my daughter.

The day will come that thou shalt wish for meTo help thee curse this pois'nous bunch-back'd toad.

A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife.

William Shakespeare

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

They didn't mention the jealousy their love of each other had bred in him, that had flourished into deviousness and cruelty. The pain the day had brought would not easily pass, both were aware of that. And yet it had to be, since it was part of what there was.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.

My desires seemed simple and terribly complicated at the same time: to gaze at Jun's wet body and to make Rie cry. These were the only things that gave me comfort.

Jealousy seems to make me suffer in the most unexpected ways.

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Mourning the passing of their youth made them jealous of young people and resentful of all the things young people do. Consequently, she and other old people inclined to remember themselves in childhood not as children but as miniature adults and their parents as patron saints of irreproachable stature. They did not recollect ever stepping outside the margins and viewed willfulness in modern children as a sign of emerging pathology.

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

an envious eye turned toward all those face holes stuffed with sun-colored cake.