Damian Lewis Quotes

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

The proud hate pride in others.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.