Cesare Pavese Quotes

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

I don't think the world is jealous of me.

The need to make sure everyone knows all of the great stuff about us is usually an insecurity in itself.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

I should have more vanity.

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.

I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.

We're all insecure, aren't we? I'm not walking around like I'm macho man or anything.

Miss India actually made me feel small.

People who criticise me are just jealous.

I hope I don't have an ego.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

A lot of people keep saying that I am insecure and I keep trying to axe my co-actors' roles, but that's rubbish!

I'm jealous of the 'Love Island' girls. I wish I was that confident.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.