Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Racine

Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!

Jenson Button

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

Jeff Kinney

Dear Aunt Loretta, Thank you so much for the awesome pants! How did you know I wanted that for Christmas? I love the way the pants look on my legs! All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pants. Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever! Sincerely, Greg

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.

Honore de Balzac

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Honore de Balzac

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

Honore de Balzac

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

Honore de Balzac

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Honore de Balzac

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Honore de Balzac

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

Honore de Balzac

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Ice Cube

Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

Gina Barreca

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

Gerhard Richter

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

Jack White

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

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.

Jennifer James

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.