Quotes About Jealousy

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

I never really spent time being jealous. Maybe I should have.

Her heart pounded as [Cam's] lips bypassed hers and came to a stop, whispering in her ear: 'Don't let him flip you off next time.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.

He says, naïvely, outspokenly, and without suggestion of embarrassment: I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. You see, it is only another way of saying, I the Lord thy God am a small God; a small God, and fretful about small things.

In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.

Something worse than a boy who hates you: a boy who loves you.

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success

Kingsley used to tell the following anecdote about sibling rivalry – how he found me, when I was four or five, lying on the stairs in an ecstasy of grief, how he worriedly knelt at my side and, after several minutes, managed to quell my hiccuppy gaspings, my heaving chest. Then he said, 'Easy now . . . What is it?' When at last I could find and shape the words, I said, 'Philip had a biscuit' . . .

What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should quarrel with him; I should be jealous of him; our menage would be conducted in a very ill-bred manner. A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life. (The Lifted Veil)

Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.

Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound

Nikad nisam stvarno razumjela zašto se Hatsumomo izlaže takvom riziku i dovodi ljubavnika u okiju, iako je nju vjerojatno upravo to uzbu?ivalo.

Când Nobu a intrat în înc?pere, zâmbetul fermec?tor al lui Hatsumomo a înflorit, pân? când buzele ei pline au ajuns ca dou? uriaÈ™e pic?turi de sânge adunate la gura unei r?ni.

The French attitude to the Finnish War reminded one of the voyeur who gets his thrills out of other people's virile exploits, which he is unable to imitate

You want somethin' else, Eddie, and you can never have her!

But here Billy Chope arrived to demand what the 'ell Sam Cardew was doing with his gal. Now Sam was ever readier for a fight than Billy was; but the sum of Billy's half pints was large: wherefore the fight began. On the skirt of a hilarious ring Lizerunt, after some small outcry, triumphed aloud. Four days before, she had no bloke; and here she stood with two, and those two fighting for her! Here in the public gaze, on the Flats! For almost five minutes she was Helen of Troy.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

People's envy shows how unhappy they feel; their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are.