Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Edmund Burke

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

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.

George Eliot

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

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.

Franz Grillparzer

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

Bob Edwards

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

Anne Bronte

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

Ambrose Bierce

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Seal

We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.

Sean Connery

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

Neil Gaiman

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

Jesse Owens

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

Catharine Beecher

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

Jim Fowler

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

Jane Yolen

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.

Baltasar Gracian

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Brigham Young

If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

Edmund Burke

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

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.

Cristiano Ronaldo

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

Amy Poehler

It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.

Alberto Manguel

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.