Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Curt Goetz

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

Rajneesh

In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.

George Eliot

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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.

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

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.

Debbie Macomber

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Anna Camp

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

Thomas Browne

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Susan Cain

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Regina Brett

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Rumi

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Mason Cooley

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Vanessa Edwards

Gluttony, lust, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.

Francis Bacon

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Anthony Daniels

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Anna Quindlen

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.