Quotes on Jealous

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.

Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

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

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

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

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.