I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. Harriet Ann Jacobs
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. Antisthenes
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously. Lope de Vega
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracian
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. William Shenstone
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did. Jeff Foxworthy
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. Helen Rowland
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. Van Wyck Brooks
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. Ludovico Ariosto
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. Arthur Golden
Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it. Germaine Greer
But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods. Herodotus
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. Aphra Behn
The knives of jealousy are honed on details. Ruth Rendell
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. George Orwell