Quotes About Comparison

After all, a husband is very much like a house or a horse. You don't take your house because it's the best house in the world, but because just then you want a house. You go and see a house, and if it's very nasty you don't take it. But if you think it will suit pretty well, and if you are tired of looking about for houses, you do take it. That's the way one buys one's horses, — and one's husbands.

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger. I remember when I used to think that members of the Cabinet were almost gods, and now they seem to be no bigger than the shoeblacks, — only less picturesque.

I remember dear old Lord Brock telling me how much more difficult it was to find a good coachman than a good Secretary of State.

Her sister, who was three years her elder

I have no cause for anger. How can I make my plaint, who injured him I most was bound to serve, whom most I loved? Who has been falser to me and I not falser? Whose treachery so black that mine's not blacker Whose gross injustice will not show but small, when mine is shown beside it?

but don't scold me; you see how humble I am; not only humble but umble, which I look upon to be the comparative, or, indeed, superlative degree. Or perhaps there are four degrees; humble, umble, stumble, tumble; and then, when one is absolutely in the dirt at their feet, perhaps these big people won't wish one to stoop any further.

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

What must it be like to be the son of someone for whom you can never be good enough?

your view of her more like my view of the people on the plane or more like the view of the woman I told you about?

A pior forma de desigualdade é tentar fazer duas coisas diferentes serem iguais.

No more will there be any difference between 'the ideal good' and 'good' in so far as both are good.

In everything continuous and divisible, it is possible to grasp the more, the less, and the equal, and these either in reference to the thing itself, or in relation to us.

All the elements of an Epic poem are found in Tragedy, but the elements of a Tragedy are not all found in the Epic poem.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.

The smallest number, strictly speaking, is two.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

When Simonides was discussing wisdom and riches with Hieron's wife, and she asked him which was better, to become wise or to become wealthy, he replied, 'To become wealthy. For I see the wise sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

We may compare the opinion that the older actors entertained of their successors. Mynniscus used to call Callippides 'ape' on account of the extravagance of his action, and the same view was held of Pindarus.

Man, if perfected is the best of all animals but when isolated he is the worst of all

Thus women's secrets I've surveyed And let them see how curiously they're made, And that, tho' they of different sexes be, Yet in the whole they are the same as we. For those that have the strictest searchers been, Find women are but men turned outside in; And men, if they but cast their eyes about, May find they're women with their inside out.

Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It is the highest form of literature. It yields the highest form of pleasure, and teaches the highest form of wisdom. In a word, there is nothing to compare with it. I say this with sad consciousness of the fact that the majority of people do not read poetry.

They ought to have looked forward meekly to the prodigious feats of posterity; but having too little faith and too much conceit, they were content to look behind and make comparisons with the past. They did not foresee the miraculous generation which is us.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.