Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
Envy is human nature.
If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed.
Don't be drinking the Haterade.
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.
Chinese people become jealous about status more easily. Foreigners are more inclined to look up to successful people. I don't understand why there is a difference. If two people start at the same point and then one person gets ahead, the other should work hard to catch up. But instead, they just curse. They are jealous.
You're going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That's how it is.
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.
