Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.

When I was younger, I wasn't making it, and I was mad at everybody who was.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

How about those people who don't need sleep? What are they called again? Successful? What a bunch of dicks they are.

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

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.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.