Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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.

George Washington

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

George Orwell

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

Franz Grillparzer

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

Jeremy Taylor

So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

Jeaniene Frost

Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.

Francoise Sagan

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

Christa McAuliffe

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

Chrissie Hynde

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

George Plimpton

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

Gene Tierney

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

George Edward Moore

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

Fergie

For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

Francis Marion Crawford

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

Hugh Miller

Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

George Bernard Shaw

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Erich Maria Remarque

Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Heber J. Grant

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

Carlos Alazraqui

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

Buck Owens

Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You dont have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.

Cassandra Clare

You are just jealous," Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself." "Oh, I am positively green with envy," Ragnor snapped. "Come now, Ragnor. That's not fair," said Magnus. "You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion.

Evander Holyfield

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

George Henry Lewes

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.