William Hazlitt Quotes

The proud hate pride in others.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

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

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

The more you win, the less people like you.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are

Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.

People hate it when you're better than them. They ain't hating, start worrying then.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

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.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

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

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.