Quotes About Jealousy

The whole point of government, Spinoza maintained, is liberty: "the object of government is … to enable [men] to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice." The state authorities may interfere in religion—indeed, they must do so, since religion is too dangerous to be left in the hands of priests.

The trouble with this place is that everyone is super-sensitive and you can all too easily get accused of favouritism. I'm just telling you the facts. He was very ambitious. He'd have stabbed his own mother if it would help him to get cast.

No matter who you date, people are going to make fun of them, jealous people are going to say stuff, people get creepy - all the things that come with the public eye.

I don't know how many times I literally hear this. It's the worst pun in the world from some idiotic frat guy. It's like, 'You must be 'Jealous' of Nick!' Constantly! It's like, why? He's doing his thing. I'm doing mine! He's happy. I'm happy.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

I hate jealous guys! Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it's going to drive the other person away.

I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.

It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.

After all, she told herself, if Todd preferred Jessica—and that certainly was how it looked—she would not stand in the way. She'd do the decent thing. Die.

Regina didn't answer, and that made Jessica fume. What's wrong with this girl? she wondered. Why is she treating me like dirty dishwater? Then she began to piece it together. The stumble, the lack of response to Jessica—It was only natural to conclude that the Morrow girl was drunk. Say, Regina, Jessica called. She took a few steps toward her and tapped her on the shoulder. Where are you hiding the booze?

Oh–it's just–well, all I can say is, I'd never do anything so –so déclassé,' she finished on a note of smug satisfaction. Narrowing her eyes, Jessica glared at the phone in her hand. Where did Lila get off being so superior, using words like 'déclassé'?

She'd written a book, and I hadn't, even if her novel was worse than anything I would have written.

decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Sin embargo, allí estaba él, con las mismas exigencias que los otros, como si quisiera arrebatarle algo que era suyo y llevárselo en el bolsillo.

No matter how kind or well-meaning you are, someone will always resent you.

Joe) Dimaggio was, in fact, mostly just a cold fish. Not even his brother Dom, who played outfield for the Red Sox..., seemed to care much for the Yankee Clipper. As someone best summed up Dimaggio: What kind of guy learns to love the most beautiful woman in the world only after she dies?

All men beneath your position covet your station

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful

What better way to destroy me than to sow suspicion of the woman I love?