Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, For envy is a kind of praise.

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

Give me a celebrity, I'll give you your haters. Some people shine, and some people don't like when they shine. Ask Barack Obama - he'll tell you.

I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity.

One thing I learned from my old man is that people are going to be happy for you, but not too happy. When the tables are turned and you're hanging out on top with a guy like Randy Orton, who is in the main event at Wrestlemania, not all the guys are going to like you.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

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

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.