Learn Through Quotations

“Jealousy and love are sisters.”

“The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.”

“Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.”

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”

“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.”

“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.”

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”

“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”

“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”

“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”

“Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.”

“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.”

“Jealousy is the great exaggerator.”

“O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.”

“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”

“He that is not jealous is not in love.”

“Never love unless you can Bear with all the faults of man: Men will sometimes jealous be, Though but little cause they see.”

“The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.”

“Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.”

“O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.”

“Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.”