Quotes About Jealousy

When people decided you were better at trade than they, they not only grew jealous, they became stubborn and tried to demand ridiculous bargains. And sometimes you had no alternative save to accept.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile.

I was married to Erma for almost forty years, you can't be jealous of my memories

Thus there's dopaminergic activation during schadenfreude—gloating over an envied person's fall from grace.

She turned to Roy with her gayest expression. He smiled back at her with what Phil called his deep, black, velvety smile. Yet, she really did not see Roy at all. She was acutely conscious that Gilbert was standing under the palms just across the room talking to a girl who must be Christine Stuart

Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Teddy was feeling as miserable and impotently angry as any male creature does when two women are quarreling about him in his presence. He wished himself a thousand miles away.

It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me…only luckier.

It was because you looked so happy. Oh, you'll agree with me now that I AM a hateful beast—to hate another woman just because she was happy,—and when her happiness didn't take anything from me! That

Jealousy and stupidity really do most of the harm that is done in the world.

And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places — if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you.

Ming can't figure out how Dagou has attracted the devotion of a woman like Katherine Corcoran. Too smart for him, too attractive, too accomplished, and too good. Too much of a good thing, and Dagou unable to avoid fucking it up.

How can you say what depths of hatred people keep to themselves? The Skaers, for example. Do we know what the Skaers feel about your family's restaurant, what they think your parents' workaholism has done to drain their family businesses over the years? And there are others.

You'd be surprised how many divorces start with "I smelled the bitch on him.

Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob. Sometimes Mary let Laura hold Nettie, but she did it only when Susan couldn't see.

They didn't say anything. Perhaps Mary felt sweet and good inside, but Laura didn't. When she looked at Mary she wanted to slap her. So she dared not look at Mary again.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

No ass had the right to look that good in plain old dark blue denim, Sheridan mused as she stared after him.

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

I was a girl and I had the best deadly toys in the room. Gun envy is an ugly thing.

I'd like to be jealous," Galen said. "I was all set to be jealous, but damn, Frost, can you just teach me how to do it?

You're just jealous." "Of what, of you? Of you and Asher? I'm still having sex and bondage with Asher, because you're vanilla. You're a fucking freak emotionally, but in the bedroom you're the gay male equivalent of missionary position with the lights off." "Asher didn't say that about me." "If you weren't too tame in bed for him, Kane, he wouldn't still be fucking me and Nathaniel, and Jean-Claude.

If there's anything more annoying than a boy praising another girl's beauty to your face, I can't think what it is.