Chris O'Dowd Quotes

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

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

Whenever, and from whatever causes, it might happen; and happen it would, that any one of these nations or confederacies should rise on the scale of political importance much above the degree of their neighbors, that moment would those neighbors behold her with envy and fear.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

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

The proud hate pride in others.

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

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

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

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

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Envy aims very high.