Patti Davis Quotes

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Envy aims very high.

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better, but I don't wanna outshine her.

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

I'm better than Olivier.

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

Chinese people become jealous about status more easily. Foreigners are more inclined to look up to successful people. I don't understand why there is a difference. If two people start at the same point and then one person gets ahead, the other should work hard to catch up. But instead, they just curse. They are jealous.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

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