Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

The more you win, the less people like you.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

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

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

I dont care if youre Britney freakin Spears, nobody is going to steal my spotlight!

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

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

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

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

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

The proud hate pride in others.

Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

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.

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

Envy aims very high.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.