Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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

Simone de Beauvoir

• Jealousy
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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

• 'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Fear
  • Jealousy

• For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Knows
  • Jealousy

• I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Wounded
  • Lions

• 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

• Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Up
  • Children
  • May

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

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Jealousy
  • Real Love
  • Claws