Evan Esar Quotes

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

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

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.

The Englishman is like the dog in the fable. The dog who cannot bear that another dog should have a few bones although the overfed brute is sitting with a bowl full to the brim.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddamn friends, White, they are the ones who keep me walking the floor nights.

No better friend, no worse enemy

Allah never gave such as this to any people without that giving rise to mutual envy and hatred.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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

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