Quotes About Comparison

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

When people at school looked online for party outfits and looks, she was genuinely confused. There were people who seemed not only to understand these things, but to accomplish them. A striped top, a wide-brimmed hat, shorts for that "special beach weekend." Lipsticks for fall, jeans that were perfect for a hayride, pendant earrings for that holiday party and snowball fight. Who lived these lives?

First love is the only pure and happy one. If it goes wrong, nothing can replace it. Later loves can never attain to the same limpid perfection; though they may be as solid, as marble, they are streaked with veins of another colour, the dried blood of the past.

It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.

But don't worry. America can turn out millions just like me, and Oxford can have as many of them as she can hold. On the other hand, how many of YOU can be turned out, as per sample, in England?

For the first time in his life, he was resentful of the Duke's great elegance and average stature, his high lineage and incomputable wealth. Hitherto, these things had been too remote for envy.

the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

But it is a fact that no man, howsoever graced, can shine in juxtaposition to a very pretty woman.

The moon, like a gardenia in the night's button-hole—but no! why should a writer never be able to mention the moon without likening her to something else—usually something to which she bears not the faintest resemblance?... The moon, looking like nothing whatsoever but herself, was engaged in her old and futile endeavour to mark the hours correctly on the sun-dial at the centre of the lawn.

Whenever someone said "Good luck" or "Godspeed," I only heard "Better you than me.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you. Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.

isn't it true? What you don't have is much less than what you do. from A Love Worth Giving

Don't confuse God's love with the love of people. The love of people often increases with performance and decreases with mistakes. Not so with God's love. He loves you right where you are.

We look at the Nike star player with the million-dollar smile and say, "I want to be like him." God points to His Son—who suffered the cross to save you—and says, "I want you to be like Him.

Don't worry about skills you don't have. Don't covet strengths others do have. Just extract your uniqueness.

What you are to a paper airplane, God is to you. Take a sheet of paper and make one. Contrast yourself with your creation. Challenge it to a spelling contest. Who will win? Dare it to race you around the block. Who is faster? Invite the airplane to a game of one-on-one basketball. Will you not dominate the court?