Quotes About Standards

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

Oh, what times! Oh, what standards!

I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

You are perfect for a female. Not where I come from. Then they're using the wrong standard.

Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was… but society had a different standard.