Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Kraus

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

Patrick White

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

Maggie Stiefvater

I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.

Maggie Stiefvater

I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

John Dryden

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

Lope de Vega

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Lord Byron

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

John Bevere

The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.

Meg Cabot

great. now i was starting to get jealous of myself.

Maya Angelou

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Matthew McConaughey

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

Richelle Mead

I secretly wondered if Dimitri's problem might be that he was jealous. He hadn't pulled Lissa aside to yell at her. The thought made me slightly happy, but then I remembered my earlier curiosity about why Dimitri had even wandered by.

Richelle Mead

The bond was so strange at times. Jill was jealous on Adrian's behalf.

Ryan Lochte

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

Tyler Perry

You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.

Rick Yancey

We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

Rick Warren

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

Rick Riordan

Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense.

P. C. Cast

Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jealousy's eyes are green.

Mary Douglas

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?

Rachel Caine

Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

Natsuki Takaya

Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.

Natsuki Takaya

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

Sasha Azevedo

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

Sarah MacLean

She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

Robert Greene

No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.

Robert Greene

Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.

Richard Le Gallienne

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Van Wyck Brooks

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Tracy Anderson

I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!

Veronica Roth

He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees?” “No,” I say automatically. Then I add, “Maybe. But they aren’t my devotees.” “Please. They’re like the Cult of Four.” I can’t help but laugh. “Jealous? Wish you had a Cult of Psychopaths to call your very own?

Samuel Johnson

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was