John Grisham Quotes

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

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

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.

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

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

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.