Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Moral
  • Jealousy
  • Halo

• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Fear
  • Loved
  • Jealousy

• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Success
  • Jealousy

• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Moon
  • Stars
  • Jealousy

• I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • World
  • Real
  • School

• My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Happy

• The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Jealousy

• Balzac was right…. There is tremendous jealousy about money.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Money
  • Jealousy

• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • God
  • Help

• Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Jealousy

• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Health
  • Solitude
  • Jealousy

• There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Jealousy

• I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Bad
  • Sexy
  • Jealousy

• But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • She
  • Jealousy

• I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Free

• When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Jealousy

• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Up
  • Education
  • Quality

• If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Sick

• I don't want people memorizing the planets or counting how many plants there are in the world. But I want them to know that the world is 4.56 billion years old, and I want them to know how we know it is 4.56 billion years old. It's wonderful and exciting, and it creates a reverence for nature. When I see people reject all that, it's kind of creepy.

  

  Bill Nye
  • People
  • World
  • Nature

• I think it was needed because at this point in my career my body needs to heal. I wasn't giving it a chance to heal. I think that's why the injuries affected me late in the season. Now I get a chance to get in shape at spring training and start off fresh.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Why
  • Career
  • Giving

• The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Value
  • Gold
  • Wheat

• Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Jealousy
  • Claws
  • Real Love