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Quotes About Jealousy

Let's not forget to hate those who enjoy, just because they enjoy, and to despise those who are happy, because we didn't know how to be happy like them.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
~ Flaubert
Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can't perform and compete, you have got problems.
~ Andre Ward
He has your finger, but I have your heart.
~ Brian Celio
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
~ Eubie Blake
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
~ Johannes Brahms
There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
~ Mike Tyson
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
~ Victor Hugo
I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.
~ Tom DeLonge
I could see jealousy coming up, I could see anger, I could see frustration. I could see people's agendas. I could see my kids going wild - because we never had any money, and suddenly, we had money.
~ Erin Brockovich
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
~ Craig Brown
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
~ Elia Kazan
I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.
~ Michael McDonald
I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.
~ Denis Leary
Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two people who'd spent the night having sex. It reminded him of the feeling you get when you pull a hair off your tongue and realise it's not one of your own.
~ Robert Muchamore
Is it just me, or is that guy the coolest boyfriend ever invented?" "It's not just you." And there was that same dull pain-the one I get sometimes when I see the two of them together and realize I'll never have that. I gave Amanda a smile. "He's great. I'm really happy for you." And that was a hundred percent true. But it didn't make it hurt any less.
~ Robin Brande
I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!
~ Robin Hobb
I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me! He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!
~ Robin Hobb
have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.
~ Robin Hobb
Vim a saber mais tarde que muitos homens vêem sempre a boa fortuna dos outros como uma desfeita contra si próprios.
~ Robin Hobb
I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.
~ Robin Hobb