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Quotes About Jealousy

If we can practice when we're jealous, resentful, scornful, when we hate ourselves, then we are well trained.
~ Pema Chodron
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .
~ William Shakespeare
Envy-Thy art blindness
~ Aftab Alam
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
~ Oscar Wilde
I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
~ David Thewlis
abandoned their mother for the gorgeous girl who had shared
~ Danielle Steel
When Larten heard that Alicia had married, he felt both jealousy and delight. A selfish part of him had hoped she'd mourn for him the rest of her life. But mostly he was happy that she'd found someone who could give her all that he had failed to provide.
~ Darren Shan
I told Nora: "I'm not one to suggest that your charm wouldn't make any man turn himself inside out for you, but don't be too sure that guy isn't kidding us." "So it's come to that," she said. "You're jealous of policemen.
~ Dashiell Hammett
She jealous?" I asked before he could go on with his shouting. "And if you don't yell maybe I'll be able to hear you anyway. My deafness is a lot better since I've been eating yeast.
~ Dashiell Hammett
What fire dies when you feed it?
~ David Foster Wallace
She regarded the things that were important to me as her enemy, not realizing that they were, in fact, the "me" she seemed so jealously to covet.
~ David Foster Wallace
He knows, now, that nearly everything you call yours in the world can be taken away from you by other people, assuming that they want it enough.
~ David Foster Wallace
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
~ William Shakespeare
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss, Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger: But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
~ William Shakespeare
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
~ William Shakespeare
I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
~ William Shakespeare
O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!
~ William Shakespeare
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
~ William Shakespeare
O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.
~ William Shakespeare
I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .
~ William Shakespeare
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all
~ William Shakespeare
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
~ William Shakespeare
You are a villain! Iago: You are a senator!
~ William Shakespeare
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .
~ William Shakespeare