Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephenie Meyer

Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William James

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Sarah Brightman

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

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.

Rob Corddry

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Richard Perle

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

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.'

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.

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.

Willard Gaylin

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

Washington Irving

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Washington Irving

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Voltaire

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

Will Arnett

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

William Law

If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.

Zubin Mehta

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

Yukio Mishima

Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

Zach Braff

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

Yves Tanguy

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

William Hazlitt

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

Virginia Woolf

jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind ...

Kim Kardashian

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

Liam Gallagher

I'm Liam Gallagher and I'm in Oasis. The whole world is jealous of me. It should be.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Rumors are spread by jealous people

Thom Yorke

If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.

Shirley Bassey

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.