Quotes About Jealousy

But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination … then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

He is jealous of the past and the present and the future. His love is like a medieval chastity belt: only when he is there with me, in me, does he feel safe. If I could make him feel secure, then we could love peacefully, happily, not savagely, inordinately, and the desert would recede out of sight. For a lifetime perhaps.

I thought with bitterness and envy: if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy

treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.

He remembered a story he had once heard, about a god who had three sons—Whiteman, Blackman, and Gorilla. Blackman and Gorilla sinned against their father, and so the god took his favored son Whiteman to the west, along with all of his wealth, which Whiteman inherited. Gorilla and his kin went to live in the forests. Blackman remained where he was born, but was impoverished, yearning for the wealth inherited by Whiteman.

Her people would kill one beauty to make another.

Randy had an inkling that something else was afoot. Shelly's father appeared too eager to pass his daughter off to another man.

Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument. Jealousy can raise the dead with a single, spiteful taunt, or hate a perfect stranger for nothing more than the sound of his name.

Jealousy has no mirror, and resentment has a tin ear for the truth.

Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.

There's a dark feeling—less than hatred, but more than loathing—that ugly men feel for handsome men. It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy. It creeps out, into the light of your eyes, when you're falling in love with a beautiful woman.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

I've seen material competitiveness destroy relationships in dressing rooms. People end up worrying about what someone else is earning and whether they're missing out.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

In particular, Stewart Lee and Tony Law, people who could have been really critical, were really supportive of me, and I'll never forget that, and I want to be that person, so you have to work really hard to repress your natural jealousies and be one of those people.

Tony Hadley is a big Conservative. He is desperate to become a Lord. He's jealous of me.

I've always talked about having a strong maternal instinct... when Mum was pregnant with Alfie, everyone kept saying that I was going to be really jealous of the baby. I took it upon myself to go against what everyone expected and look after him.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'