Quotes About Jealousy

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.

Che popolo», pensò con un disprezzo venato di gelosia: e che in qualunque posto del mondo, là dove l'orlo di una gonna saliva di qualche centimetro sul ginocchio, nel raggio di trenta metri c'era sicuramente un siciliano, almeno uno, a spiare il fenomeno.

Lucrezia knew well that Elisabeth had fallen under Isabella's malignant thumb, and the usually kind duchess found a mean streak that Lucrezia's sensative antennae picked up, but did not show.

Te roba algo de tu alegría que yo haya pertenecido antes a otro y que otro me posea después de ti? ¿Será menor tu placer porque otro haya sido feliz como tú?

Before you, that another will possess me after you and would you enjoy it the less if another was happy at the same time as you?

A sense of powerlessness fuels some backstabbers.

Now, Mr. Shaughnessy, remember what happened the last time your wife got jealous of your flirting? She exchanged your denture cream for hemorrhoidal ointment.

If looks could kill, she'd be a dead woman.

Envy's a green-eyed monster that comes hissing hot from hell.

Sorry", Elliot said. "But you were kissing everybody else.

thereby forfeiting the juicy solo in Peter and the Wolf (the duck's theme) to the demonstrably inferior Evelyn Oh, whose rendition of it did, appropriately enough, sound like a quacking fucking duck, as did everything that came out of Evelyn Oh's quacking fucking Oh-boe.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and before the Internet and before everything, just to get anything interesting, you had to go on vacation to San Francisco or something. But I think when you're in the middle of America, you feel very jealous of not just comedy but music that you don't have access to.

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

It was once remarked of a well-known Oxford scholar that, while he had no enemies, he was hated by all his friends. Something of the same kind would express the feelings towards the FBI of its fellow U.S. agencies.

What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

So good, she said, kissing his shoulder. It's so good to be able to touch you like this. I like it that you like touching me. He captured her face in his hands and raised his head to meet her eyes. But the thought of you touching anyone else like this would drive me crazy. The only man I want to touch right now is you. That's not quite what I want to hear but we can talk about it some other time. I don't understand- Doesn't matter. Not now.

If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for them to be damaged, means castration.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?