How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"Now, you see […] a literary man—with a wooden leg—is liable to jealousy. I shall therefore cast about for comfortable ways and means of not calling up Wegg's jealousy." (5.15.46)
Mr. Boffin knows that Silas Wegg will be jealous that he's hired Mr. Rokesmith as a secretary instead of him (Wegg). So Mr. Boffin is going to search for all kinds of ways to soothe Wegg's anger, since Boffin is such a nice dude.
Quote #2
He could hardly get the words out, even then and there, so fierce did he grow (though keeping himself down with infinite pains of repression), when the careless and contemptuous bearing of Eugene Wrayburn rose before his mind. (10.14.79)
Bradley Headstone is pretty much insane with jealousy for Eugene's bond with Lizzie Hexam. And his jealousy is made only worse by the way Eugene constantly dismisses him and hits him with zinger after clever zinger.
Quote #3
"He can be a rival to me among other things." (10.15.90)
Headstone is jealous of Eugene Wrayburn and he's not afraid to show it. He practically tells strangers on the street that he hates Eugene's guts because the two of them are rivals for Lizzie Hexam.
Quote #4
Looking like the hunted, and not the hunter, baffled, worn, with the exhaustion of deferred hope and consuming hate and anger in his face, white-lipped, wild-eyed, draggle-haired, seamed with jealousy and anger, and torturing himself with the conviction that he showed it all and they exulted in it. (13.10.147)
As the book unfolds, you can see Bradley Headstone getting more and more frantic in his hatred of Eugene Wrayburn. Just imagine how he'll feel when he finds out that Lizzie's actually in love with Eugene? Oh that's right. He becomes a murderer.
Quote #5
He knew equally well that he fed his wrath and hatred, and that he accumulated provocation and self-justification, by being made the nightly sport of the reckless and insolent Eugene. (14.11.3)
Headstone isn't just jealous. He's downright paranoid. All he can do is sit around and fantasize about how Eugene is sitting around making fun of him. But here's the worst part of all: Eugene doesn't think about him, period. How's that for an ego-killer?
Quote #6
"I know something more than you name about you; I knew something about Gaffer Hexam. When did you last set eyes upon his daughter?" (14.11.72)
The first time Headstone runs into Mr. Riderhood, he wants to know when he (Riderhood) last saw Gaffer Hexam's daughter Lizzie. Again, Headstone seems incapable of talking to anyone without making the conversation about Lizzie and/or his rival Eugene.
Quote #7
"Now I think of it," said Mr. Riderhood, evasively, for he was substituting those words for "Now I see you so jealous," which was the phrase really in his mind. (14.11.89)
Riderhood knows that Headstone is motivated by jealousy. But he's a crafty enough dude to manipulate Headstone by playing on his emotions.
Quote #8
"Let him look to that […] Let him look to that! It will be bad for him when men he has injured, and at whom he has jeered, are thinking of getting hanged." (16.1.42)
Eugene doesn't really know how much he's playing with fire when he constantly insults and makes fun of Headstone. He doesn't realize that Headstone is willing to risk execution if it means shutting Eugene up once and for all.
Quote #9
"You've seen him with her!" exclaimed Riderhood, starting up.
"I have." (16.1.90-91)
Well that just about does it. Headstone has seen Lizzie Hexam walking alone with Eugene Wrayburn… which in Dickens' time was as bad as making out. The gloves are coming off, and it's probably around this time that Headstone decides to murder Eugene.
Quote #10
"I don't know. I can't keep it back. It has happened twice—three times—four times—I don't know how many times—since last night. I taste it, smell it, see it, it chokes me, and then it breaks out like this." (16.1.99)
Headstone's jealousy of Eugene eventually gets so bad that the dude bursts into huge nosebleeds whenever he thinks of Eugene with Lizzie. It's like his entire body is rejecting the fact that he has so badly lost the battle to Eugene.