Guilt is always jealous. [ Proverb ]
A jealous head is soon broken. [ Proverb ]
No greater mischief could be wrought
Than love united to a jealous thought. [ Greene ]
He that is not jealous is not in love. [ St. Augustine ]
A jealous man's horns hang in his eyes. [ Proverb ]
The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poison more deadly than a mad-dog's tooth. [ William Shakespeare ]
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. [ Byron ]
First on thy friend deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice;
Nor jealous of the chosen; fixing, fix;
Judge before friendship, then confide till death. [ Young ]
A jealous man always finds more than he looks for. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man. [ Michael Angelo ]
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend. [ Burke ]
The jealous is possessed by a fine mad devil
and a dull spirit at once. [ Lavater ]
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. [ William Shakespeare ]
Old men are always jealous: they are like the greedy child who wants the cake it can not eat. [ A. Ricard ]
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. [ Addison ]
Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous at times. [ Mlle, de Scuderi ]
Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him. [ Chesterfield ]
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are; they have no time, they are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable. [ Barnes ]
I do not know in the whole history of the world a hero, a worthy man, a prophet, a true Christian, who has not been the victim of the jealous, of a scamp, or of a sinister spirit. [ Voltaire ]
We are more jealous of frivolous accomplishments with brilliant success, than of the most estimable qualities without. Dr. Johnson envied Garrick, whom he despised, and ridiculed Goldsmith, whom he loved. [ Hazlitt ]
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]
A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]