Jealous Quotes

• 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.

  

  William Law
  • Soul
  • Leaving
  • Envy

• Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

  

  Ruby Wax
  • Boyfriend
  • Jealous
  • Immigrants

• Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Heart
  • Revenge
  • Jealous

• You can't be jealous and be a leader.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Leader
  • Jealous

• It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.

  

  Nadine Strossen
  • Country
  • School
  • Appreciation

• Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Brother
  • Actors
  • Christmas

• God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Play
  • Jealous
  • God Is In Control

• I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Book
  • Waiting
  • Wonderful

• I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

  

  George Plimpton
  • Style
  • Generation
  • Jealous

• Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Man
  • Jealous
  • Eloquence

• Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

  

  Kate Nash
  • Hate
  • Feelings
  • Yourself

• Dawning understanding. "You were jealous?

  

  Barbara Cameron
  • Understanding
  • Jealous

• Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Quality
  • Genius
  • Affections

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

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Should
  • Jealous

• It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Secret
  • Learned
  • Marya Morevna

• You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

  

  Ruby Wax
  • Friends
  • Jealous

• Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

  

  Christina Stead
  • God
  • Money
  • Mistress

• If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Fun
  • Learn
  • Talent

• I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Time
  • Book
  • Found

• If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Peace
  • Confidence
  • Principles

• I hate it when people say, "Oh, women are just jealous." I'm not jealous, but I do beat myself up about what I haven't accomplished in my own life yet - and when you meet a woman who has accomplished what you expect to achieve, and she's also dating your ex, of course it's hard!

  

  Noel Wells
  • People
  • Hate
  • Dating

• If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law
  • Sleep
  • Awake

• Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • Jealous

• God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Dream
  • Attention
  • Son

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