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

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

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

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

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

I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is read more

I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not), that your wisdom yet
From one that so imperfectly conjects
Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.

Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead louers,
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Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead louers,
As if her merit lessen'd yours?

Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.

Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment