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Quotes About Jealousy

The only thing they had in common was Calypso, and every time Leo thought about that he wanted to punch Percy in the face.
~ Rick Riordan
What if we promoted, like, Adidas shoes?" Percy wondered. "Would that make Nike mad enough to show up?
~ Rick Riordan
Leo got up and brushed himself off. I hate that guy. He offered Jason his arm like they should go skipping together.I`m Dylan. I`m so cool, I want to date myself, but I can`t figure out how! You want to date me instead? You`re so lucky! Leo Jason said You`re weird
~ Rick Riordan
I felt a strange pang of jealousy. Walt and Anubis seemed to have spent more time talking with each other than with me. Walt was suddenly an expert on all things deathly. Meanwhile, I couldn't even be near Anubis without invoking the wrath of his chaperone—Shu, the god of hot air. It wasn't bloody fair!
~ Rick Riordan
AWWW, YOU two are so cute together it makes me sick. So I'm going back to my own room." I'm not sure Mallory and Halfborn even heard me when I left, they were lip-locking so hard. Seeing them like that almost made me miss Magnus. Almost.
~ Rick Riordan
I hate Hera.
~ Rick Riordan
Piper to Drew: P: In case youthink Im not a true Daughter of Aphrodite dont even look at Jason Grace. He may not know it yet but he's mine. If you even try to make a move, I will load you into a catapult and shoot you across Long Island Sound.
~ Rick Riordan
We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. When faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, more beautiful, and wealthier. We want to have it all and do it all, and we become upset when it doesn't happen. Then when we notice that God gave others characteristics we don't have, we respond with envy, jealousy, and self-pity.
~ Rick Warren
Envy asks, "Why them? Why do they get what I don't have?" Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?" David
~ Rick Warren
We often forget that God has emotions, too. He feels things very deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves, gets jealous and angry, and feels compassion, pity, sorrow, and sympathy as well as happiness, gladness, and satisfaction. God loves, delights, gets pleasure, rejoices, enjoys, and even laughs! 2
~ Rick Warren
Viola had resented other people's pleasure, as if it subtracted something from the world rather than adding to it.
~ Kate Atkinson
fellow alumni, a fact which Murdo said "just goes to show." Gloria thought that it didn't go to show anything except, possibly, that they were greedier and more ruthless than their former classmates.
~ Kate Atkinson
Gwendolen was so touched that she wept, but quietly, for her mother would have been monstrously jealous of such emotion. She had claimed grief for her own long ago.
~ Kate Atkinson
The heart jealous of the soul!
~ Kate Chopin
Three semis drove past us. One was painted with a picture of a cow standing in a field of green grass. I was jealous of that cow because she was at home and I was not. It seemed like a very sad thing to be jealous of a fake cow on the side of a truck.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Show yourself, you dirty, rotten, sneaky, yellow-bellied lizard of a wife-stealer!
~ Kate McMullan
When he was still in here with me, my pigeon buddy President Wilson would rag me, joking but jealous, about all the ink committed to Whit and me in newsprint, magazines, the pages of books. But so much of it was wrong, and so much of it was terrible.
~ Kathleen Rooney
I don't think real friends would be jealous. -Primrose
~ Kathryn Lasky
Damn the MacHeaths for their jealousies, their mutilation of young pups, and their alliances with devil owls.
~ Kathryn Lasky
He, like my father, had a deep love for natural science, and he would discuss at length how physics, philosophy, and mathematics were, each in their own ways, jealous mistresses who required absolute passion and attention.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
She hasn't been on a date in six months,' Derek rumbled behind us. 'No offense, but as long as you aren't related to her, you're fair game. Hell, even-' Tori spun on him. 'I didn't know.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I spend four years chasing the guy of my dreams, finally get him, and now I have to compete with a gorgeous, twenty-year-old supernatural sex fiend. ~Jaime Vegas
~ Kelley Armstrong
Uh-uh Clay drawled above me, Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn
~ Kelley Armstrong
That's my point, you dumb f-ing Mick. You're not just letting him poach on your turf--you're opening the gate and inviting him in...Why don't you just hand him a bouquet of roses and a box of f-ing condoms while you're at it, Jacko? It's not like that, Jack said. No? Nadia is yours, and it's about time you had the balls to do something about it.
~ Kelley Armstrong