Quotes about Jealousy
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.
- Beth Moore
Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
- Ellen Glasgow
Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
- Gordon Hinckley
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.
- Dean Frazer
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.
- George Eliot
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
- Milan Kundera
Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.
- Marty Rubin
He that is not jealous is not in love.
- St. Augustine
I admit that I am very possessive.
- Kunal Khemu
Of course Jonah is angry. When you haven't forgiven someone who has wronged you and then something good happens to them—when they are blessed or shown mercy or experience favor—it's infuriating.
- Rob Bell
You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!
- Emily Bronte
It formed a sweet picture. The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful. I did not marvel how Catherine Earnshaw could forget her first friend for such an individual.
- Emily Bronte