Jealousy quotes

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.