Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

Envy aims very high.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

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

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

I was so pretty, actresses didn't want to work with me.

A lot of people hate winners.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

You ain't the only one that's tryna be the only one.

[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although he was pleased with the double-helix, he 'rather wished the idea had been his'.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

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

It stirs up envy, fame does.

The proud hate pride in others.

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

Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.

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

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Comparisons are odious.

I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.