Quotes about Jealousy

“Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.”

“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”

“Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”

“Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.”

“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”

“I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.”

“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.”

“It would be beautiful to be able to walk up and down Peckham still, because I love it; it's where I grew up. But it just doesn't work. There are a lot of people who love you but there's jealousy too.”

“I don't believe in comparing myself with anyone else, as that leads to hatred and jealousy.”

“Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.”

“People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.”

“It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.”

“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.”

“Little kids definitely have desires and jealousy. There are some emotions that don't show up at birth, but by three or four, they are all there.”

“I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.”

“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.”

“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”

“Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.”

“I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.”

“I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.”

“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.”