"Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters."
~
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
~
The Comedy of Errors
by
William Shakespeare
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
~
Middlemarch
by
George Eliot
When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.
~
Tom Jones
by
Henry Fielding
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
~
The Mill on the Floss
by
George Eliot
But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~
Zuleika Dobson
by
Sir Max Beerbohm
Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
~
Ivanhoe
by
Sir Walter Scott
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on."
~
Othello
by
William Shakespeare
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
~
The Mill on the Floss
by
George Eliot