#jealousy

Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention. ↗

— Jessica Day George

#oliver #petunia #jealousy

People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#enviousness #envy #food-for-thought #hate #haters

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ↗

— William Penn

#jealous #others #themselves #torment #troublesome

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

— Richard Perle

#allies #also #animate #cold #cold war

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#contains #love #more #self-love #than

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#bred #ceases #certainties #change #doubts

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#ceases #certainty #doubt #doubts #entirely

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cotton #drudge #give #give me #grave

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ↗

— Erica Jong

#fun #had #think #you

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#jealousy #love #ownership #freedom