Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Schiller

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Jon Lovitz

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.

Johnny Carson

NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.

Luc de Clapiers

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

Lope de Vega

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Lord Byron

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

John Bevere

The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.

Oliver Stone

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

O. J. Simpson

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Ellen Glasgow

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

Mike Patton

Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

Mike Nichols

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Cassandra Clare

You are just jealous," Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself." "Oh, I am positively green with envy," Ragnor snapped. "Come now, Ragnor. That's not fair," said Magnus. "You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion.

Evander Holyfield

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

Muriel Spark

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

Kathie Lee Gifford

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

Jude Law

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Ovid

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Paul Eldridge

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

Patrick Henry

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever ...

Patrick Henry

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Patrick Henry

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

Mike Ditka

He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

Keira Knightley

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

Mary Schmich

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Mario Teguh

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Nico Tortorella

I am the least jealous person I have ever met.

Nicholas Sparks

Now, she could't help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.

Mikhail Bakunin

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Mark Hoppus

I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.

Mark Hoppus

And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.