Jealousy Quotes - Page 9

• The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Mad, Teeth

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.294

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• jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

  Edna O'Brien

  Betrayal, Self, Results

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• When you strengthen your self-esteem, there is no room for jealousy.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Self Esteem, Rooms, Self

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• Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  War, Naked, Admiration

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

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• It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

  William Graham Sumner

  Land, Doctrine, Individual

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.45, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Anger, Would Be

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• But bear in mind your lover's wage
  Is what your looking-glass can show,
  And that he will turn green with rage
  At all that is not pictured there.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Glasses, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.82

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• Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.

  Jan Neruda

  Relationship, Women, Interest

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• A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

  Karl Kraus

  Sex, Men, Instinct

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Joy, Ego

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• Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

  Adrian Lyne

  Emotion, Sexuality, Intrigued

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• The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers are. The love which is attached to the ego is a conspiracy and a trick to possess the other. It is a conspiracy - that is why nobody suffocates so many people as those who talk of love. This situation is created because of the 'love' which comes from the ego - there can never be any relation between love and the ego.

  Rajneesh

  People, Ego, Lovers

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• Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

  George Meredith

  Love, Bed, Burning

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• I do not say anything from jealousy.

  Anna Held

  Say Anything

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• A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Wife, Doubt

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• My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

  Conrad Veidt

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Zsadist, Inferiority

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.128, Penguin

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• But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

  Cheryl Tiegs

  Would Be, Firsts, Instinct

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• Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Depression, Wise, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Jul 26, 2016

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• Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Abandonment

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• Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Mother, War, Passion

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• Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

  Mason Cooley

  Grieving, Envy, Rage

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• Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

  Aphra Behn

  Worms, Bites

  Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.233, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Necks, Lifelong, Nooses

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• my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

  Louise Erdrich

  Horse, Mind, Wagons

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