Voltaire Quotes

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

When I was younger, I wasn't making it, and I was mad at everybody who was.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

There are so many people around who are unsuccessful in life. They still bother to pinpoint because they think that if they are not able to do anything, they should humiliate those who are doing something.

There are people who would love to see me fail.

The flight crew for the orbital mission has been picked, and I'm not on it. Of course I've been feeling pretty low for the past few days. All of us are mad because Glenn was picked.

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

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.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

People want you to fail.