Quotes About Comparison

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Women are a lot like ducks-they don't like mud on their butts.

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.