Quotes About Resemblance

One also suspects that the couple clashed as a result of their very similarity.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

Mogor had been right. The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Over a species of altar, and beneath a canopy of blue velvet, surmounted by white and red plumes, was a full-length portrait of Anne of Austria, so perfect in its resemblance that d'Artagnan uttered a cry of surprise on beholding it.

Athos, c'est votre femme, vous dis-je, répétait d'Artagnan, ne vous rappelez-vous donc pas comme les deux signalements se ressemblent ? - J'aurais cependant cru que l'autre était morte, je l'avais si bien pendu.

At periods of equality men have no faith in one another, by reason of their common resemblance; but this very resemblance gives them almost unbounded confidence in the judgment of the public; for it would not seem probable, as they are all endowed with equal means of judging, but that the greater truth should go with the greater number.

Perhaps that was what my mother disliked most. I resembled her. I could not help but wonder if for some women, that was the worst sin of all.

Most times mens look pretty much alike to me.

Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Everything must be like something, so what is this ike?

Our apartment is similar to the one on Ganghoferstrasse, only much smaller.

Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.

Les gens en couple finissent souvent par se ressembler, j'avais déjà vu cela. Ils ne formaient qu'un, les Groom, il était difficile de les distinguer l'un de l'autre, tous deux avaient de la poitrine, tous deux des hanches, tous deux de grosses mains, et tous deux étaient habillés des mêmes vêtements blancs, marque de leur emploi.

Like people, like priest.

I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.

I get 'young Jodie Foster.'

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

She was certainly now obsessing him! Beyond bearing or belief. His whole being was overwhelmed by her... by her mentality, really. For of course the physical resemblance of the lance-corporal was mere subterfuge. Lance-corporals do not resemble young ladies.

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!