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Quotes About Jealousy

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Women are women's own worst enemy. They rip each other apart.
~ Keith Allen
Women know how to scare other women.
~ Karin Slaughter
A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene.
~ Erica Durance
No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.
~ Moses
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.
~ Jennifer Egan
It's painful when you see your boyfriend flirting with some girl or you know he's been with somebody on the road.
~ Bebe Buell
Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.
~ Jerome Charyn
All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good art.
~ Adam Granduciel
Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.
~ Rivers Cuomo
Because I just decided, if I'm jealous, it's in my hands. I shouldn't pass that off to anyone else.
~ Justin Thomas
The boy smiled -- mostly at Amy. "Sorry, her heart belongs to Ian Kabra," Dan said, except that something in her expression made him realize her heart didn't belong at all to Ian right now.
~ Peter Lerangis
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
~ Peter Ustinov
Hayranl?k ma?lup olmu? bir k?skançl?kt?r. Yani k?skançl?k g?ptaya, g?pta hayranl??a yerini verir. Dibinde kin vard?r. Gitgide, hayranl???n zaafa u?rad??? anlarda bu kin ortaya ç?kar.
~ Peyami Safa
Ah, insanlar niçin her ?eyi anlayam?yorlar? Be? dakika, on dakika, yar?m saat kendilerini unutsalar, tam onun gibi -fakat hiç eksiksiz ve tam- onun gibi duysalar, her ?ey ne kadar yerli yerinde olacak. Hay?r! ?llâki z?ddiyetler, öfkeler, yanl?? anla?malar, k?skançl?klar, inatlar, ?üpheler, hâkim olmak arzular?...
~ Peyami Safa
jealous men only tormented themselves.
~ Philip Freeman
Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.
~ Philippa Gregory
Oui, sans le connaître, sans même avoir jamais vu ses traits, je lui en ai voulu. Être jaloux d'un mort. Vouloir être à sa place.
~ Philippe Claudel
But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it.
~ Phillip Lopate
My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
~ Felicity Kendal
Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants has become an abiding literary trope.
~ Lisa Jewell
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
~ Aeschylus
If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.
~ Amanda Eliasch