Marie Corelli Quotes

I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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.

Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

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

When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.

Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.

When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than you would have got if you were collecting their bins.

When you have haters, you're doing something right.

If I hadn't been part of '3 Idiots,' I would have felt bloody jealous.

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 dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

You want to be recognized for being popular but you also want to be recognized for being great.

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

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

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

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

How success changes the opinion of men!

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?'