Quotes About Comparison

What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz

You come from a race that spends more time murdering your own kind than do all the immortals put together, yet you insist you are better than us.

a remark Khaldun had made once, when Dawit returned from the battlefield against the Italians: What do you gain from it, Dawit? Must a scythe prove itself sharper than a blade of grass? Let grass grow as it will. While

If the watchers in the city had remarked that Cyrion was as handsome as the Arch-Demon himself, they would not have been the first to do so.

When Electra stood before her, their likeness and their unlikeness, both, were disconcerting. The black hair, the slender shapely form. Yet hyacinth hair in one, dragon's blood in the other, and the one figure like a flower stem and the other figure like a bone. Their faces were unmatched. The younger, peerlessly beautiful, lowered, unreadable. The older face like a carving, with a snake behind it.

I never saw a girl so beautiful." "Nor I. And for looks could be your sister. Much on that.

The noon sun, raying through the orange trees, fired his elegant silk clothes, and revealed his hair as pure light. It was a fitting halo for the marvellous face Mareme had compared to an angel's-though whether of the heavenly variety or one of the descended sort, it was somehow hard to be sure.

a one hump camel makes a one hump poop, and a two hump camel makes a two hump poop

A mother or father might be too preoccupied with how one child compares with another to be able to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the individual child.

Look at me, see how I resemble a puddle of dog vomit? Won't you please throw your fingers to your teeth and be wildly fascinated by me?

What then do you think is my advantage over you?

It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Kate immediately felt like a worm.

You're a lot like Anthony, did you know that?

But I never did, because it never seemed right, and I didn't want to settle for anything less than what my brothers and sister have.

Brighton is like Bristol-on-sea. It's for people who are happy with where they've got to in life and don't want to go any further.

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

You have many flaws, he announced... "But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison." "Was?" she asked. "I don't have this flaw any longer?" "No, you don't." "Pray tell," she muttered in exasperation, "what was this terrible flaw?" He grinned. "You used to be English.