Quotes About Standards

We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed.

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.

Friends don't let friends take home ugly men.

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive.

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why woman spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they are attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre n'a pas de succès qu'il est forcément bon.

Der soziale Fortschritt kann an der sozialen Stellung des schönen Geschlechts gemessen werden, einschließlich der hässlichen Frauen.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

Don't you think there's a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman's greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron)

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.