Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Je vous apprendrai à vivre—I will teach you better manners (lit. to live). Fr. Pr.

Je vous ferai voir de quel bois je me chauffe—I will let you see what metal I am made of (lit. with what wood I heat myself). Fr. Pr.

Je weniger die Worte, je besser Gebet—The fewer the words, the better the prayer. Ger. Pr.

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, / 30 Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it. Byron.

Jealousy / Hath in it an alchemic force to fuse / Almost into one metal love and hate. Tennyson.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. Hume.

Jealousy is always born with love, but it does not always die with it. La Roche.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals 35 thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Bible.

Jealousy is love's bed of burning snarl. George Meredith.