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Quotes About Jealousy

Je voyais qu'il étaient remplis d'une admiration stupide : elle est si démesurément supérieure à eux ... à n'importe qui sur terre, n'est-ce pas ?
~ Emily Bronte
God is indeed a jealous God — He cannot bear to see That we had rather not with Him But with each other play.
~ Emily Dickinson
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.
~ Emily Dickinson
I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.
~ Emily Giffin
After all, you reach the mundane, comfortable moments only when a relationship is working. When it's not working, the passion morphs into something twisted and dark. Drama. Jealousy. A never-ending power struggle.
~ Emily Giffin
Alicia was white. 'I'm not performing any more tonight,' she said, in a cold and angry voice. 'You're quite stealing the performance yourself, aren't you, Moira? Wonderful demon queen you'd make, with that look on your face!' It was so exactly what Moira did look like that there were quite a lot of guffaws. Alicia walked off the stage. Darrell was petrified. Sally took charge.
~ Enid Blyton
Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.
~ Eoin Colfer
I always thought my intellect would keep me alive, but now I shall be killed by my own baby brother with a rock. The ultimate sibling rivalry.
~ Eoin Colfer
Ik weet waar dit allemaal om te doen is, Opal.' 'O, is dat zo?' 'Ja. Je bent nog steeds beledigd omdat ik op de universiteit de medaille voor natuurwetenschappen gewonnen heb'... Foaly grijnsde voldaan. Ook al zag het er nog zo beroerd uit, hij was toch nog in staat het allerirritantste wezen onder de wereld te zijn, als hij dat wilde.
~ Eoin Colfer
My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.
~ Eoin Colfer
For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.
~ Epictetus
Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.
~ Epictetus
jealously lives with insecurity!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
anger and jeaously are first cousins!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Tonight I was stealing the time of another woman.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
~ Erica Jong
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
~ Erica Jong
Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.
~ Erica Jong
She is the witch. You wish you were she. Except when the time comes for burning.
~ Erica Jong
le prime cose che Hélène percepiva nella gente erano la mediocrità, la meschinità, la vigliaccheria, la gelosia, l'insicurezza, la paura; forse perché quei sentimenti erano presenti in lei, li individuava subito negli altri. Antoine invece era portato ad attribuire al prossimo intenzioni nobili, motivazioni di valore, ideali, come se non avesse mai sollevato il coperchio di un'anima per scoprire fino a che punto puzzava e brulicava di vermi.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Invidiosul nu-l ponegreÈ™te decât pe cel care e mai bun decât el.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.
~ Amanda Craig
In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder....Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure....Some killers enjoy the kill....For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.
~ Amanda Quick