Jealousy Quotes

156. We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it’s fixing their lives. It’s helping. It’s healing. It’s bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.

^{Nancy Wilson}

157. Jealousy isn’t something I do. I am not a jealous person.

^{Mathew Horne}

158. There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

^{Richard Le Gallienne}

159. Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

^{David Seabury}

160. My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

^{Conrad Veidt}

161. The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

^{Richard Perle}

162. Back then I didn’t think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn’t the life for me!

^{Sylvia Kristel}

163. I do not say anything from jealousy.

^{Anna Held}

164. But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

^{Cheryl Tiegs}

165. What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

^{Francois de La Rochefoucauld}

166. In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don’t want those things in my life.

^{Chrissie Hynde}

167. I don’t watch that much comedy. I think it’s professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

^{Michael Ian Black}

168. There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

^{Chris O’Dowd}

169. Critics? Don’t talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don’t.

^{Jonathan Raban}

170. I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

^{Julie Burchill}

171. I don’t get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you’re jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what’s the point?

^{Joy Behar}

172. At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In ‘The Polar Express,’ there’s a kid that doesn’t really believe, and that’s the threat to Christmas. In ‘Santa Claus: The Movie,’ jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.

^{James McAvoy}

173. My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like – well, I was making my mom happy.

^{Kristy McNichol}

174. I went to a girls’ school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

^{Nadine Velazquez}

175. Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.

^{Alanis Morissette}

176. My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it’s a good kind of competition; it’s not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can’t be you, you want itto be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?

^{Janet Jackson}

177. ‘Toy Story’ we found, sorta by accident, because we didn’t know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

^{Pete Docter}

178. You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

^{Craig Brown}

179. There never was one particle of… jealousy… in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

^{Heber J. Grant}

180. 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.

^{Jane Birkin}

181. My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don’t have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

^{Felicity Kendal}

182. I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction – not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist’s heart. The doubts, the uncertainty – the jealousy! – can be breathtaking.

^{Kresley Cole}

183. 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.

^{Sophie Hannah}

184. My second business would have succeeded but for competitors’ jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.

^{John Caudwell}

185. Miley Cyrus’ ‘Party in the USA’ kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.

^{Rivers Cuomo}

186. If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we’re sitting on a time bomb.

^{Ron Moody}

187. Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.

^{Tom Drury}

188. I’ve been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, ‘Oh, I’ve heard it’s a disaster!’ The jealousy is unseemly.

^{Lenny Abrahamson}

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

^{Marina Abramovic}

190. I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don’t have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.

^{David Thewlis}

191. When you do well, everybody’s after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it’s envy and jealousy.

^{Robert Kraft}

192. 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.

^{Norbert Leo Butz}

193. You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

^{Leila Slimani}

194. Whether it’s angst or jealousy, catfights always have to come from the wellspring of the emotion of the character.

^{Sallie Patrick}

195. 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.

^{Pete Docter}

196. I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it’s so hard.

^{Peyton List}

197. Jealousy is a human emotion, regardless of whether you’re a Branch Davidian or you’re whomever, outside in society.

^{Melissa Benoist}

198. Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

^{Derren Brown}

199. India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.

^{Sushma Swaraj}

200. It’s a big jealousy thing in Germany that you have from fans – not the hardcore fans, because they always stand behind their team.

^{Andre Schurrle}

201. You will never see Lil Wayne in New Orleans. You will never see those type of guys in New Orleans because the hate and the jealousy is that real and it’s that overwhelming.

^{Tyrann Mathieu}

202. 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 jealousytoo.

^{Ashley Walters}

203. Although jealousy is a strong word, who would like to see the person they love romance someone else, even onscreen?

^{Kunal Khemu}

204. I believe in healthy competition not jealousy.

^{Kovai Sarala}

205. I don’t believe in comparing myself with anyone else, as that leads to hatred and jealousy.

^{Shehnaaz Gill}

206. I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me.

^{Sonja Morgan}

207. Europeans have long had a complicated and somewhat insecure relationship with the US, part admiration, part jealousy, part irritation.

^{Katty Kay}

208. When I tried out for cheerleader, they sneered, ‘You’re too good, kid,’ and put me in the high-kick line instead. It was pure jealousy, if you ask me.

^{Joey Heatherton}