Quotes About Comparison

Comparisons are odious.

I don't thinks she cares for anyone much. I love her. She's so like me. Do you? Is she? In looks and the way she talks. I wouldn't love anyone with a character like mine.

Relative advantage is the degree to which an innovation is perceived as better than the idea it supersedes.

Cuando sientas deseos de criticar a alguien" -fueron sus palabras- "recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las mismas oportunidades que tú tuviste.

I did not faintly resemble a rose.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.

God, am I like the rest after all?—So he used to think starting awake at night—Am I like the rest?

But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

I'm more beautiful than anybody else," she said brokenly, "why can't I be happy?

If you don't like nice people, try the ones who aren't nice, and see how you like that!

Siempre que sientas deseos de criticar a alguien, me dijo, recuerda que no a todo el mundo se le han dado tantas facilidades como a ti.

He's quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy.

But I believe you are absolutely incapable of jealousy except as hurt vanity.

Almost impersonally he was convinced that no woman he had ever met compared in any way with Gloria. She was deeply herself; she was immeasurably sincere—of these things he was certain. Beside her the two dozen schoolgirls and débutantes, young married women and waifs and strays whom he had known were so many females, in the word's most contemptuous sense, breeders and bearers, exuding still that faintly odorous atmosphere of the cave and the nursery.

They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

Cuando sientas deseos de criticar a alguien" -dijo- "recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las mismas oportunidadades que tú tuviste.

American men," said Nancy gravely, "don't know how to drink." "What?" Jim was startled. "In fact," she went on carelessly, "they don't know how to do anything very well. The one thing I regret in my life is that I wasn't born in England." "In England?" "Yes. It's the one regret of my life that I wasn't.

And his mind strong and subtle like the mind of Cuchulin

Evelyn leaned out her window and calmly said, "Let's face it, honey, I'm older than you are and have more insurance than you do," and drove away.

do you know that's the same woman