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

E. B. White

This equipment is newer and greater and does so much more. There's just no comparison in what we can do.

Michelle Kwan

We will write down her levels and do a comparison (with other skaters) to determine if she is ready to compete.

Phil Garner

He's still very good, ... He's still better than good. But in comparison to last year, that's what I've seen since the end of last season.

David Cole

just as we did in the McCarthy era, we have offset the decline of traditional forms of repression with the development of new forms of repression. A historical comparison reveals not so much a repudiation as an evolution.