Rachel Cohn Quotes

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

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

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

Envy aims very high.

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

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

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.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

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.

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

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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

I think envy motivates a lot of people.