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Quotes About Jealousy

I'm envious." She gave another shrug. " 'Tis a poet's curse to live in placid times.
~ Jacqueline Carey
You were the most desirable woman I've ever seen, and I resented you for it. Foolish, but true.
~ Jacqueline Carey
It's obvious you're just a bad loser," said Chloe. "I want my notebook!
~ Jacqueline Wilson
But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy beauty. Is that because it's beyond them? Is it because beauty represents something they cannot have, or is not inside them?
~ Jacqueline Winspear
By the Lord, Reule better bed that Wench soon! Mara is going to start thinking her p***y is made of gold if I keep frequenting her bed like this! -Rye Drink of Me
~ Jacquelyn Frank
If you want to be successful, you need to study success, not hate it or be envious of it. If you are envious, then you will distance yourself from success and make it that much harder to get there. Never be jealous. Never think someone is "lucky." Luck is created by the prepared. Never think that someone is undeserving of the money they have. That only puts you one more
~ James Altucher
I did not want to know what his status was with Jacques; yet the day came when it was revealed to me in Jacques' spiteful and triumphant eyes. And Giovanni, during this short encounter, in the middle of the boulevard as dusk fell, with people hurrying all about us, was really amazingly giddy and girlish, and very drunk—it was as though he were forcing me to taste the cup of his humiliation. And I hated him for this.
~ James Baldwin
Bloodlust is the only real tribute the mediocre are capable of bringing to the extraordinary
~ James Baldwin
Alas, if worth be based on beauty, Snow White has surpassed you, cutie.
~ James Finn Garner
But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.
~ James Frey
Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.
~ Franchesca Ramsey
Jealousy destroys the Moral competence to be Successful
~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick
~ Munia Khan
A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
~ Oscar Wilde
A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can't.
~ Christian Louboutin
If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.
~ Mindy Kaling
Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.
~ Grace Kelly
God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.
~ Umar