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Quotes About Jealousy

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
~ Ned Vizzini
My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.
~ Ned Vizzini
found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
~ Ned Vizzini
We make fun of those we're most scared of becoming.
~ Neil Strauss
As he'd thought, and as he'd always known, Henry and Vivian were better suited for each other. But better is not best, and though he was angry— and hurt— he was also concerned about Vivian. He still liked Henry, but not as much as Henry liked himself. He would have told Vivian this— as a friend— but she might think it was coming from a jealous ex-lover. So he wasn't going to say anything now.
~ Nelson DeMille
On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They are profit, revenge, jealousy, concealment of a crime, avoidance of humiliation or disgrace, and homicidal mania.
~ Nelson DeMille
Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
Franklin had admitted that the colonies had different forms of government, different laws, different interests, and some of them different religious persuasions and different manners. Their jealousy of each other is so great that however necessary an union of the colonies has long been, for their common defence and security against their enemies, and how sensible soever each colony has been of that necessity, yet they have never been able to effect such an union among themselves.
~ Niall Ferguson
Skoro pot??ny cudzoziemiec wkracza do prowincji, natychmiast ??cz? si? z nim wszyscy ci, co s? w niej mniej pot??ni, kierowani zawi?ci? przeciw pot??niejszemu od siebie.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Nicia: God send him the plague! Timoteo: Why? Nicia: So he'll get it!
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Now, she could't help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Because he's no better than a spoiled child. You were his toy, and even though he's got new toys, it doesn't mean he wants anyone to play with his old toys.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.
~ Melanie Griffith
I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
~ Eddie Marsan
There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.
~ Peter Carey
Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.
~ Andre Rieu
A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.
~ Mike Patton
Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.
~ Christopher Guest
I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.
~ Diane Setterfield
In my time also when you do good, Frenchmen don't like it.
~ Eddy Merckx
I was kind of a MySpace kid in high school, and people thought since I had so many MySpace friends that they didn't need to be nice to me in real life. They were like, 'You get enough attention online,' or they were jealous or something. I don't really know.
~ Blackbear
Cute? You think he's cute? What's cute about him? ... Well, yes. He's got that smile, that really bad boy smile, and a great backside. On page eighty of the relationship manual, it clearly states, you cannot look at another man's backside, especially if you think it's great.
~ Christine Feehan