Shakespeare Quotes About Jealousy

    7 quotes across 3 plays.

    We are all bastards; And that most venerable man which I Did call my father, was I know not where When I was stamp'd.

    Posthumus·Cymbeline·Act 2, Scene 5

    O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.

    Iago·Othello·Act 3, Scene 3

    I think my wife be honest and think she is not; / I think that thou art just and think thou art not.

    Othello·Othello·Act 3, Scene 3

    But jealous souls will not be answer'd so; / They are not ever jealous for the cause, / But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself.

    Emilia·Othello·Act 3, Scene 4

    Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ.

    Iago·Othello·Act 3, Scene 3

    There may be in the cup / A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart, / And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge / Is not infected: but if one present / The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known / How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides, / With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider.

    Leontes·The Winter's Tale·Act 2, Scene 1

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    I am a feather for each wind that blows.

    Leontes·The Winter's Tale·Act 2, Scene 3