German Speakers (er, writers, actually)

axtually, the sentence is a bit better if you add "schon" to it: "Ich war schon immer boeser als Du".

Schon means alreday; so it adds the notion of "since-way-back-when".

You can also say:

Ich bin immer boeser als Du gewesen.

Which is more: I've always been more evil than you.

Stoopid me! I meant to write another post about adding schon, and instead edited my first post!
So originally I'd written "Ich war immer boeser als Du,"
amended to
"Ich war schon immer boeser als Du".
or
"Ich bin schon immer boeser als Du gewesen."

As a native german I would say: "Ich war schon immer boeser als Ihr."
-that "Ihr" (with a capital "I") relating to your "thou".

But that really sounds strange to me. "Boese" (=evil) is nothing I would use when describing myself (even when being the villain - and german ;-) ). Being "boese" is such a general statement (and I think that applies to german as much as to english) - perhaps a more particular expression would not sound so queer, like "I've always been more ambitious than thou" (german: "Ich war schon immer ehrgeiziger als Ihr"). Not quite the same thing and since I dont't know the context perhaps even not quite fitting - but you get my idea.

Eiko said:

As a native german I would say: "Ich war schon immer boeser als Ihr."
-that "Ihr" (with a capital "I") relating to your "thou".

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Thatnks, I was wondering about the "Thou".