Jealousy Quotes

I had a good teacher.Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass.I mean you, dummy.

~ Rachel Caine

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

~ Kamila Shamsie

I’ve never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your jobs, I think it will drive me mad. (Bones)

~ Jeaniene Frost

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

~ Milan Kundera

Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex? He smiled, but not nicely. How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking. I flashed him a too-sweet smile.Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it.Jealous?

~ Karen Marie Moning

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

~ Petar Dunov

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.

~ Cora Carmack

When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

~ Charlaine Harris

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy

~ Robert A. Heinlein

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

~ Abbi Glines

You can't be yourself within jealousy.

~ Toba Beta

Meghan rose with the regal grace of a queen, calm and unruffled. I noticed she subtly moved in front of me when facing Ariella, a familiar gesture that caught me off guard. The Iron Queen was protecting me.

~ Julie Kagawa

Jealousy is love in competition.

~ Toba Beta

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss,Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!(Act 3, scene 3, 165–171)

~ William Shakespeare

Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.It was a very long and very green night.

~ William Goldman

I won’t lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who’s had you—you’d be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.

~ Sylvia Day

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.

~ Anne Brontë

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

~ Edward Albee

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

~ George Eliot

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

~ Richelle Mead

No,” he agreed. “You’re not. She never caused me this agony.”What could I say to that? The way he was looking at me was making my head feel funny. Was making me feel funny and not just in that oh God I just almost died way.Christophe leaned in. His mouth was a mere centimetres from me. “She never made me think I would die of heart failure. She never, never made me fear for her this way.

~ Lili St. Crow

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

~ William Shakespeare

Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it's worse.

~ Kristen Ashley

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Kishan shook his head. 'I'm not going to let you hurt

~ Colleen Houck

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

~ Sean Covey

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

~ Ayn Rand

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

~ Anne Lamott

What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.

~ Petar Dunov

Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.

~ Rachel Caine

Jealousy blurs the focus.

~ Toba Beta

Is it my imagination, or is there some kind of jealousy thing going on here?-Inuyasha (gives Inuyasha a really bad look)It's your imagination.-Sango (Inuyasha tries to hide behind Kagome) Whatever you say.-Kagome

~ Rumiko Takahashi

Who. Hit. You?

~ Lili St. Crow

Why do you care? His eyes looked casually over my shoulder, down the hallway then flicked back to me. Are you jealous? his left eyebrow rose sli

~ Leah Spiegel

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

~ Graham Greene

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

~ Erykah Badu

I’m not comfortable in this stadium,” I explained, trying to look calm.“I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we’re still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you’ll still save the world. Okay?

~ James Patterson

She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.

~ Jodi Lynn Anderson