jealousy quotes

That is ever the way.'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

- SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
Quality Street (published1913), act1.

: Oh, but thou dost not know What 'tis to die. :Yes, I do know, my Lord: 'Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep; A quiet resting from all jealousy, A thing we all pursue; I know besides, It is but giving over of a game, That must be lost.

- Francis and Fletcher,John Beaumont
     PHILASTERBELLARIO1609  Philaster (published1620), act 3, sc.1.

   Love isstrong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 8:6^7.

For theearof jealousyhearethallthings: and thenoiseof murmurings is not hid.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Wisdom of Solomon1:10.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

-John Dryden
  Love Triumphant, act 3, sc.1,'Song of  Jealousy'.

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

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  The Mill on the Floss, bk.1, ch.10.

   Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

- Erica ne  e Mann Jong
  HowTo SaveYour Own Life.

   A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love. Fair lady, will you any?

-John Lyly
  Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injured lover's hell.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.449^50.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  TheWife of Sir Isaac Harman, ch.9.

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

-William Wycherley
  The CountryWife, act 3, sc.2.