Quotes About Comparison

Rhett: Here's the problem. I am not the sexual equivalent of an espresso machine.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things

If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be envious?

Your Gods and my Gods—do you or I know which are the stronger? —Native Proverb.

You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three, But the way of Tweedle-dum is not the way of Tweedle-dee. You can twist it, you can turn it, you can plait it till you drop, But the way of Pilly Winky's not the way of Winkie Pop!

La Envidia es la Religión de los Mediocres. (Pedro Vidal en El Juego del Ángel)

I was merely an onlooker; added to which, from the time I first read Pride and Prejudice I have loved Mr Darcy so much that no actual man has measured up to him.

For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.

Ah, how could I possibly admit weakness of the one sense which should be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the greatest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession have or ever have had?

Why was it that women could never work hard enough to quiet their nagging fear that they were not enough? That they were falling behind? That they could and should be better?

Sweeties were a breakfast cereal. They did not snap,crackle or pop, or do anything the more talented cereals did.

I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to.

Was it possible people were heavier dead than alive?

Everyone's running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what's really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.

after we polished our boots to the point that the sun extinguished itself out of envy

The slaves of paltriness, the frogs in life's swamp, will naturally cry out, "Such a love is foolishness. The rich brewer's widow is a match fully as good and respectable." Let them croak.

As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a stylist his name is quite obscure--and as an upholsterer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him.

By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity .

Ei ajattelu ole yhtään sen arvokkaampaa kuin mielikuvitus tai tunne, vaan niihin rinnastettavaa. Ajattelun ylivalta johtaa harhaan.

No one in life can ever match fiction

Many complain of their looks, few of their brains.

Are you familiar, he said finally, with the Bang? The Big Bang? Luka asked. Or some other Bang I don't know about? There was only one Bang, said Nobodaddy, so the adjective Big is redundant and meaningless. The Bang would only be Big if there was at least one other Little or Medium-Sized or even Bigger Bang to compare it with, and to differentiate it from.

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

Women have always moaned about men...but it turns out that their deepest complaints are reserved for one another, because while they expect men to be fickle, treacherous, and weak, they judge their own sex by higher standards, they expect more from their own sex--loyalty, understanding, trustworthiness, love....