Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Matthew McConaughey

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

Kathie Lee Gifford

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

Jude Law

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Patrick Henry

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever ...

Patrick Henry

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Patrick Henry

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

Judd Apatow

I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

Lauren Oliver

But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.

Mikhail Bakunin

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Mark Hoppus

I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.

Mark Hoppus

And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.

Nadine Gordimer

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

Mike Patton

Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

Mike Nichols

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Margaret Atwood

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Lauren Oliver

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

Larry Rivers

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Oscar Wilde

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

Oscar Wilde

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

Madonna Ciccone

You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

Mary Schmich

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Mario Teguh

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Nico Tortorella

I am the least jealous person I have ever met.

Nicholas Sparks

Now, she could't help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.

Ovid

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Paul Eldridge

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Marilyn Manson

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Christian McKay

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

Christian Louboutin

A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can't

Germaine Greer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.