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Quotes About Comparison

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.
~ Josh Billings
It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
~ Hugh Hefner
To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.
~ Roger Ebert
I make love to the beautiful Maria and you make love to your stick!
~ Santino Marella
jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.
~ Ayala Malakh-Pines
You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.
~ Dan Chaon
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
~ George Gilder
I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.
~ Ryan Stiles
Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.
~ Linda Perry
Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.
~ Margaret Oliphant
Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.
~ Fred Rogers
It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.
~ Richelle Mead, Frostbite
To love is to stop comparing.
~ Merrit Malloy
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.
~ Jonathan Sadowski
America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe were better than they are.
~ Chuck Todd
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I love you as New Englanders love pie!
~ Don Marquis
I love that the level of mediocrity rises.
~ Paula Scher
I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience
~ Steven Spielberg