Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

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

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we're better than they are.

I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.

Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

People across the country think I'm jealous of my dear, beloved, sweet, angel sister. But there is no-o-o-o jea-ea-ea- lou-ou-ou-ou-sy-y-y-y. I love her too much.

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

I want Scott to look at me the way Patch looks at you.