“Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.”

Pt. III, line 73.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update May 22, 2020. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul." by John Dryden?
John Dryden photo
John Dryden 196
English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

Related quotes

Arthur Conan Doyle photo
Abraham Cowley photo
Frank Lloyd Wright photo

“No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Robert A. Heinlein photo
Marguerite de Navarre photo

“Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.”

Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

Mary Baker Eddy photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Arthur Conan Doyle photo

“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: The Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor

H. G. Wells photo

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), p. 299
Context: Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. It is the peculiar snare of the perplexed orthodox, and soon Mr. Brumley was in a state of nearly unendurable moral indignation with Sir Isaac for a hundred exaggerations of what he was and of what conceivably he might have done to his silent yet manifestly unsuitably married wife.

Related topics