Quote by Djuna Barnes
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love,

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the others bed, where the rival perfects the lovers imperfections. – Djuna Barnes

Other quotes by Djuna Barnes

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasnt the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how lifes lived before it gets to the parlor door. – Djuna Barnes

Category:
Service
Read Quote

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes

Category:
Sleep
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
best
category

Once you are labeled the best you want to stay up there, and you cant do it by loafing around. – Larry Bird

Category:
best

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? – Jackie Kennedy

Category:
best

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. – John Lubbock

Category:
best

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didnt build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We werent going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. – Steve Jobs

Category:
best

Random Quotes

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. – Martha Graham

Category:
Dancing

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. – Lord Melbourne

Category:
Religion

Ive always wanted to be a dad. I just cant wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe Ive become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect. – Josh Duhamel

Category:
dad

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. – Penn Jillette

Category:
famous