Quotes About Comparison

She was taller than all the unmatched girls, even the ones with breast buds, just as her mother was taller than the queen and Cian was unusually tall for a boy with a wealh mother.

Breguswith's eyes were hard, bright blue, with none of that milky aging Hild saw in Æffe's and Brugen's eyes.

Perhaps she wasn't as good at it as he was. He cut too deep.

A partisan of equality who is not envious can only be so because he is stupid.

Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.

None of us finds it difficult to love the neighbor who seems inferior to us. But to love someone we know is superior is another thing.

The increasing disintegration of the person can be measured by comparing the expression "amorous adventure," which was in style in the 18th century, with the expression "sexual experience," which is used in the 20th century.

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

Das widerlichste und groteskeste der Schauspiele ist das der Überlegenheit des lebenden Professors über das tote Genie.

Die marxistische Soziologie ist die aristotelische Physik der Sozialwissenschaften.

Envy differs from the other vices by the ease with which it disguises itself as a virtue.

El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)

Um idiota sempre encontra um idiota ainda maior para admirá-lo.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

John the Baptist would have looked debonair in comparison, even after Salome got her prize.

You do resemble me," the duke said. "The question is, does your blood run hot or cold?

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who shine more lavishly that everyone else seem to be penalized by discontent, as if they're being punished for craving a brighter life. I've been knocked down so many times I can't remember the number plates, she said once.

What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?

I am not seeking to justify him; I am only asking you whether you think it right that an inexperienced youth who had been tempted and led away by others should have received the same sentence as the man who had taken the chief part in the affair. That is to say, although Dierpiennikov and the man Voron-Drianni received an equal measure of punishment, their CRIMINALITY was not equal.

Be quiet, Afanasii Ivanovich," said Pulcheria Ivanovna: "you just like to talk, and that's all. A dog is not clean; a dog soils things, and breaks everything: but the cat is a peaceable beast; she does no harm to any one.