Quotes About Comparison

A narcissist is someone better looking than you.

And at some length Dr. Bogart spoke of a period in which skies were bluer, water purer, potatoes better-grained than now. I know the speech. It is the tirade of the old.

You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...*

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

Of course,' I said, 'you know her so much better than I ever did.' In some ways,' he said gloomily, and I knew he was thinking of the very ways in which I had known her the best.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy

When you are miserable, you envy other people's happiness.' It wasn't what I had ever expected him to learn in the Ministry of Home Security. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

Memories are a form of simile: when we say something is 'like' we are remembering.

You think God's more bitter than a woman!?

When you are miserable you envy other people's happiness.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you? Last Orders

I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.' Trust me, *this* is the future of this sort of thing.

He looked at his frayed sports coat and his worn-out running shoes, decided he was easily ten years behind the times and thousands of dollars short in refurbishing his wardrobe, and sighed as he entered the elevator.

Comparing that shyster to a snake would be a slander to the serpent.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

You should have dragged my butt out of bed. Your butt's too big to drag, Taylor said. Hayley sat on the floor, facing her sister. That means yours is too. We have the same butt, remember? Don't remind me, Taylor said. I see it every time you walk in front of me.

It's hard to be genuinely enthusiastic if you can never have what's in front of you—when it comes so easily to others.

We judge others harshly in order to judge ourselves with approval.

2. Faith and pride. If people think that sanctification adds anything to their justification, there is room for them to become spiritually prideful. At the very least, they can begin to congratulate themselves that they are less in need of God's sheer grace than they once were and no doubt less in need than other believers now are.