Britain Quote by Christopher Lee Download Open image “In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.” — Christopher Lee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Britain Degrees Envy Jealousy Mets Resentment Success
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, 'an open door.' — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of -… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world.… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure. — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As for whether what happened in Britain improves[Donald] Trump's chances of winning, I don't think so. He has the same chances; we may just… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials.… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image