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Quotes About Jealousy

Überstrahlst du solche, die sich hochgelehrt im Geist bedünken, bist du rings ein Ärgernis. (Medeia)
~ Euripides
MEDEA: Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?
~ Euripides
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
~ Euripides
Mr. Schultz, you're jealous of whispering Glades. And why wouldn't I be seeing all that dough going on relations they've hated all their lives, while the pets who've loved them and stood by them , never asked no questions, never complained, rich or poor, sickness or health, get buried anyhow like animals?
~ Evelyn Waugh
If you live with a man you come to know the other woman he has loved.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy--it increased her value in his eyes. He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
My God, she's good-looking! said Mr. Sandwood, who was just over thirty. Good-looking! cried Mr. Hedrick contemptuously, she always looks as if she wanted to be kissed! Turning those big cow-eyes on every calf in town! It was doubtful if Mr. Hedrick intended a reference to the maternal instinct.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She hated the beach, resented the places where she had played planet to Dick's sun.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
And with the clumsy tools of jealousy and desire, he was trying to create the spell that is ethereal and delicate as the dust on a moth's wing
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only the image of a third person, even a vanished one, entering into his relation with Rosemary was needed to throw him off his balance and send through him waves of pain, misery, desire, desperation. The vividly pictured hand on Rosemary's cheek, the quicker breath, the white excitement of the event viewed from outside, the inviolable secret wamrth within.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only the image of a third person, even a vanished one, entering into his relation with Rosemary was needed to throw him off his balance and send through him waves of pain, misery, desire, desperation. The vividly pictured hand on Rosemary's cheek, the quicker breath, the white excitement of the event viewed from outside, the inviolable secret warmth within.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
But I believe you are absolutely incapable of jealousy except as hurt vanity.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Very rarely, with the spur of jealousy or forced separation, the ancient ecstasies returned, the apparent communion of soul and soul, the emotion excitement.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's rotten that every bit of real love in the world is ninety-nine percent passion and one little soupcon of jealousy
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You always look so cool, she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.' She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn. 'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him. This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one. His mind had already started to play variations on the subject. Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush - these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth - bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They say envy is a coal that comes hot and hissing straight from hell.
~ Fannie Flagg
Vendo passar amantes Nem propriamente inveja ou ódio sinto, Mas um rancor e uma aversão imensa Ao universo inteiro, por cobri-los.
~ Fernando Pessoa