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| 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. | Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe |  |
| Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love . . . | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | |
| "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." | William Shakespeare | Othello | |
| Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | |
| . . . 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. | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | |
| But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. | Sir Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson | |
| 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. | George Eliot | Middlemarch | |
The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. | William Shakespeare | The Comedy of Errors | |
