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Quotes About Comparison

exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't see any point in trying to equate one evil with another, or to assign some stupid scale of values. They're both awful! Would
~ William Styron
bet gal nedera vienos meilÄ—s lyginti su kita
~ William Styron
Morrissey was singularly small, a man in his mid-thirties who had once been compared to a ferret. He had a thin trap of a mouth and greased black hair that he perpetually attended, directing it back from his forehead with a clogged comb. He was dressed now, as invariably he was, in flannel trousers and the jacket of a blue striped suit over a blue pullover, and a shirt that was buttoned to the neck but did not have a tie in its collar.
~ William Trevor
women are a little different than men.
~ Wilson Rawls
He looks like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath.
~ Winston Churchill
I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.
~ Winston Graham
Like all human beings she could not refrain from idly comparing what she had with what she might have had.
~ Winston Graham
These days I often have a struggle not to feel inferior to you, that is in your judgment of human beings.' 'I don't think I have any judgment, at least not to be proud of. But perhaps I am nearer the earth than you. Like Garrick, I can smell a friend.
~ Winston Graham
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
~ Winston S. Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
~ Winston S. Churchill
In this period, almost equal to that which separates us from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, well-to-do persons in Britain lived better than they ever did until late Victorian times. From the year 400 till the year 1900 no one had central heating and very few had hot baths.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I saw them before you were born. I came here first in 1900. [Reporter: "Do they look the same?"] Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over. 1943, NIAGARA FALLS.
~ Winston S. Churchill
What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
~ Winston S. Churchill
did not overlook the broad principle that in war as in life everything is relative.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism
~ Winston S. Churchill
Las ten co gorsza by? zielony.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
If she were lying on a plate with a herring, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
~ Woody Allen
If it's bad, I'll hate it because I hate bad writing. If it's good, I'll be envious and hate it all the more.
~ Woody Allen
Mom had five sisters, one more homelier than the next, with Mom arguably the homeliest of the swarm.
~ Woody Allen
I'm ordering a bottle of Bordeaux. I know as much about wine as I know about horses or bipolar women.
~ Woody Allen
were the best I ever heard, it was the man. It took me a long time to understand that and to grasp that no matter how hard I tried or how clever I could make my act, I wasn't him. (It's the same problem 99 percent of the actors had after Brando hit the scene. They walked like him, paused like him, posed like him, postured
~ Woody Allen
Los perdedores se consideran listos, les indigna que los menos dotados lleguen más lejos que ellos. Creen que el talento vale más que la persistencia.
~ Xavier Velasco
Cuántos millones de papanatas habrá en el mundo decididos a demostrarles a sus vecinos que tienen algo más que ellos?
~ Xavier Velasco