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Quotes About Jealousy

Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.
~ P. C. Cast
It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
~ Orson Scott Card
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
~ Helmut Schoeck
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
~ Honore de Balzac
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
~ Honore de Balzac
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
~ Horace
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
~ Horace
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.
~ Jack London
A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.
~ Jackie Warner
I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
~ James Salter
Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him. The other half were men and didn't count. -Tara on Ford
~ Jill Shalvis
The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.
~ Jason Thomas
Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners! - Cat
~ Jeaniene Frost
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
~ Victor Hugo
The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.
~ Babatunde Fashola
That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.
~ Helen McCloy
Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show
~ Big L
Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.
~ Yao Ming
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
~ Billy Joel
I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.
~ Arnold Friberg
People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
~ Honore de Balzac
My mother was my first jealous lover.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?
~ Mary Higgins Clark