Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William James

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Richard Le Gallienne

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

William Graham Sumner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

Friedrich Schiller

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Lord Byron

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Ellen Glasgow

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

Paul Eldridge

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

Patrick Henry

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

Richard Baxter

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Virgil Thomson

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

Rick Warren

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Albert Einstein

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

Anna Freud

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Kevin Sorbo

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

Eugene McCarthy

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

Jack Kemp

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.