244 quotes found
“To , nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
“I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.”
“Jealousy is a fever that arises from a stupid, baseless excitement in our unthinking brain.Jealousy is a phenomenon of auto-suggestion.The woman you love has gone to bed with X. You hate X, you hat...”
“Melanie understands jealousy. Shes jealous, a little bit, every time Miss Justineau talks to another boy or girl in class. She wants Miss Justineaus time to belong to her, and the reminders that it...”
“I'm afraid my jealousy is a beast I find difficult to tame," he said with a sigh.”
“Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.”
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
“Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.”
“But jealousy is a dreadful thing, Jessica. It is the most natural to us of the really wicked passions and it goes deep and envenoms the soul. It must be resisted with every honest cunning and with ...”
“I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel”
“In a democracy private citizens see a man of their own rank in life who becomes possessed of riches and power in a few years; this spectacle excites their surprise and envy, and they are led to inq...”
“Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have woundsand scars of their own. They may even be envying us.”
“Ah, wine. Wine was my friend. Wine understood me. Wine knew that it was entirely possible to be one hundred percent happy for your sisters and also ten percent jealous, because Wine does not care a...”
“But a vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies that develop between brothers or sisters almost unnoticed until maturity, only to burst out when one of them marries or has a stroke of good fo...”
“People say love is the international language. I'd say jealousy and anger are also pretty articulate.”
“Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart.”
“Did you get rid of that sweater like I asked?""Yes, Mother," Josey said."I wasn't trying to be mean the other day. It just doesn't look good on you.""Yes, Mother," Josey said.The truth was, that sw...”
“Jealousy will get you nowhere.”
“You're jealous," I said. His face went cold and remote, and I knew I should shut up, but my humiliation had been festering since the game, turning to anger, thick and oily in my veins. I couldn't s...”
