42 Metaphors for jealousy

Symptoms of Jealousy, Fear, Sorrow, Suspicion, strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking up, Oaths, Trials, Laws, &c. Of all passions, as I have already proved, love is most violent, and of those bitter potions which this love-melancholy affords, this bastard jealousy is the greatest, as appears by those prodigious symptoms which it hath, and that it produceth.

Now King Christian's ambition, his piety, for he was a sincerely religious man, as well as his jealousy of his younger rival and of the growing power of Swedenso mixed are human motivesmade him yield to the entreaties of the hard-pressed Protestant princes to take up alone their cause against the German Emperor.

Where is there a city, or a town, or a village, in which are no bickerings, no jealousies, no angers, no petty or swollen spites?

But those who hold supreme power are not in a like position with their friends: the latter without incurring jealousy or danger reap all the benefits they please, whereas jealousies and dangers are the lot of the former.

Another jealousy too is suggestedthe mutual distrust of north and south which has been the canker-worm of Irish political life for fifteen hundred years, making intelligible if not justifying the indignation of a certain distinguished Irishman who wanted to know the man's name, in order to curse its owner, who first divided Ireland into two provinces.

Jealousy is a devouring passion, especially among nobles.

My last caution is, that a woman do not bestow herself upon a fool, or an apparent melancholy person; jealousy is a symptom of that disease, and fools have no moderation.

Jealousy is a symptomlike the effects of drought.

Jealousy is a frequent occasion.

Remember, jealousy is a smoke that cannot exist without some warmth.

Mr. Choate honestly confesses that sectional jealousies are coeval with the country itself, but it is only as fomented by Anti-slavery-extension that he finds them dreadful.

Jealousy is not an uncommon quality in the feminine temperament; and just conceive the fate of these unfortunate women between the passions of their masters and mistresses, each alike armed with power to oppress and torture them.

Jealousy was the cause, and heresy the pretext,that most convenient cry of theologians, often indeed just, as when Bernard accused Abélard, and Calvin complained of Servetus; but oftener, the most effectual way of bringing ruin on a hated man, as when the partisans of Alexander VI.

The natives usually share their females both before and after marriage; monopoly of body and soulof which true jealousy is the guardianis a conception beyond their moral horizon.

Jealousy was a bad beginning for a lover, and after all, if he should allow himself to be jealous of every man who admired and danced with Maud, life would be unbearable.

I know, myself, that a lofty love will regard the good of the beloved object first, and itself last,that jealousy is a paltry and sinful emotion; but, my dear creatures, I can't help it,so it was.

Jealousy was a potent factor in his love for Sarah.

His mind was also haunted with dark conjectures as to the fate of Beatrice, but jealousy, rather than concern for her, was the moving impulse.

Jealousy is that Pain which a Man feels from the Apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the Person whom he entirely loves.

This jealousy is but excess of passion, Which grows up, wild, in every lover's breast; But changes kind when planted in an husband.

This Oriental jealousy is often a "dog-in-the-manger" feeling.

Love is the forgetfulness of Self; but jealousy is the most passionate form of egoism, the exaltation of the despotic, vain and greedy Self, which cannot forget and subordinate itself.

My jealousy would be a miserable thing if it were not at the same time the pain of the true believer who sees his divinity dragged in the dust.

But such jealousy is a compliment to a woman, my dearest, not an insult.

The clamor was great and general; jealousy of the commercial prosperity of Holland being the real motive.

42 Metaphors for  jealousy