Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. L. Mencken

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

H. L. Mencken

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

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.

Voltaire

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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.

Lord Byron

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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.

Kathie Lee Gifford

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

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

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.

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.

Nadine Gordimer

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

Judd Apatow

I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.

Lauren Oliver

But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.

Lauren Oliver

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

Rachel Caine

Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

Natsuki Takaya

Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.

Natsuki Takaya

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

Mother Teresa

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Shirley Bassey

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Shaquille O'Neal

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.

Leonard Nimoy

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

Natalie Goldberg

So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.

Lisa Kleypas

I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.

Pete Fountain

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.