Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Storr

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

William Shakespeare

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

Minna Antrim

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

William Shakespeare

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Hallie Ephron

My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

Charles Caleb Colton

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

Cheryl Tiegs

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

C. S. Lewis

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

C. S. Lewis

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

C. S. Lewis

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Carl Rogers

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

Bette Davis

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

Bill Vaughan

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Bertrand Russell

One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

William Shakespeare

Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.

Patrick McGoohan

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself

Carrie Fisher

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Bertrand Russell

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Gregory Coupet

We need to judge our level, to learn. It will be a fine match. We have nothing to envy them ... except for their history. It will be 50-50.

Denis Waitley

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Michael Des

We'll get exhibitions that will be the envy of the museum world.

Jim Parker

I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

Tom Stoppard

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Jacob Tamme

I envy the perseverance of everybody in this school. And I know how much they must look up to Terry.

John Glenn

I envy Neil for that wonderful, wonderful experience.