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Quotes About Jealousy

Oh, you too, Becky!" says Nadine insincerely, then she looks at my spiky boots. "Don't those kill your feet? I can't do heels. I don't do rock music and I don't do heels over two inches. End of." She gives Craig a satisfied look and he gazes at her admiringly
~ Sophie Kinsella
Who could behold his greatness without envy?
~ Sophocles
tik?jim? tur?ti - pavyd?tina dalia, net jei niekas apie tai nežinot?. (7-8)
~ Soren Kierkegaard
having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.
~ Jan Burke
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Some people may decide to hate you for no reason simply because your confidence reminds them of their insecurities.
~ Ali B. Moe
Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.
~ Guy Fieri
People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.
~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Bing: You're a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn't go your way, anything that you can't have you destroy.
~ John O'Hara
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influences... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
~ John P. Avlon
Music is the music of all music, and I am jealous.
~ John Sladek
if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow older but never truly grow up.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Being the bone of contention between her two lovers was not to her taste.
~ John Varley
Perhaps what should make you feel better is the thought I would kill you, that I'm obsessed with you enough to do that. I'd rather you not live than that you live apart from me.
~ John Wiltshire
Jealousy is the most absurd pain of all. How one resents it! To be made to suffer in public–the public indignity, the private pain. The shock of it lays dreadful waste in one's soul; it discolors the whole world, cancels every remembrance of tenderness.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Sometimes, she wanted quite furiously to hurt him; now, for instance, to lean forward and snap at him: 'Why do you dye your hair? I know you do. In this light it looks utterly horrible.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
At that moment, Irish realized the man was Nathan Harris, the guy they'd seen in the hardware store. The one who'd had an issue with Randy having it all.
~ Elle James
But she has an insecure core that desperately needs to be more than a pretty face. She is accustomed to being the center of attention, and when the spotlight slides my way, she deflates, her anxieties twisting into anger that homes in on me, as if I've stolen that spotlight from her.
~ Ellen Datlow
Envy is the offspring of pride,
~ Ellen G. White
Raven: "Don't you notice that?" Alexander: "Notice what?" Raven: "The girls?" Alexander: "What girls?" Raven: "Hello! You were worried about bringing me to a bar when all along I should have been concerned about bringing you." Alexander: "I don't know what you are talking about." Raven: "The girls are drooling all over you!" Alexander: "Well, there is only one girl I want to be with and she's right here.
~ Ellen Schreiber
I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.
~ Ellen Schreiber
I have had just about enough of other guys trying to turn you, Raven. There is only one vampire who will," he said confidently. "The one who you were always meant for-me.
~ Ellen Schreiber
Cupid's not the only one with an arrow," I scowled
~ Ellen Schreiber
No way! Everyone knows he's in love with that Raven girl. But get this. I saw that ghost guy at the movies last Friday. Alone. Who goes to a movie by himself?" "Only a loony loser crazy person," Josie said.
~ Ellen Schreiber