William Peter Blatty Quotes

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

Envy bestrides praise.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Jealousy's eyes are green.

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.