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quotes by topic Jealousy

" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "

Jealousy

" Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. "

Faults , Jealousy

" Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. "

Power , Jealousy , Envy

" What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. "

Saint Augustine

Love , Fear , Jealousy , Anger

" Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade. "

Jealousy , Hater , Rain

" 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 - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. "

Robert A. Heinlein

Love , Jealousy

" I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead. "

Jealousy , Humor

" 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. "

Jealousy

" Back at home, after some prodding from Tereza, he admitted that he had been jealous watching her dance with a colleague of his. "You mean you were really jealous?" she asked him ten times or more, incredulously, as though someone had just informed her she had been awarded a Nobel Peace prize. Then she put her arm around his waist and began dancing across the room. The step she used was not the one she had shown off in the bar. It was more like a village polka, a wild romp that sent her legs flying in the air and her torso bounding all over the room, with Tomas in tow. Before long, unfortunately, she bagan to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealously not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death. "

Jealousy , Dancing

" Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness. "

Jealousy

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