Quotes About Jealousy

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Y es que cuando se quiere a alguien los celos vienen incluidos. Quién no cela no ama y el que diga lo contrario miente. Miente y no ama.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer.

I read Wolfe's new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am going to write and say will you please stop writing books you bastard.

Have you ever noticed a certain type of man who always wants to go along with his wife to pick out her clothes? I've always thought that's because he wants to wear them himself. Truman Capote on Warhol

Constance, with her plainness, deafness, and superior age (she was three years older than Henry), probably did not strike Alice as a serious rival for her brother's love.

La beauté, à ce degré, sépare des autres mortels, suscitant leurs désirs et leur jalousie. Pour un qu'elle satisfera, elle fera quantité de victimes, qui transformeront la douleur de leur amour déçu en volonté dangereuse de vengeance.

I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.

Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.

It was one of the reasons she'd fallen in love with him; he didn't press her on personal matters, he was seldom jealous, and he had no interest in annexing or directing her friendships with other men.