Quotes About Difference

LORD ILLINGWORTH. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. LADY

Todas las mujeres llegan a parecerse a sus madres. Esa es su tragedia. A los hombres no les ocurre lo mismo. Esa es la de ellos.

By the way, is there any difference between 'grey' and 'gray'? I believe there is, but I don't know what it is. In one place in the poem Smithers suggests 'gray'. In others he leaves 'grey'. Perhaps he is seeing red. I believe they are sympathetic colours in spectroscope investigations.

What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! gossip is charming! History is merely gossip, but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis

Of course' said Joe, 'I quite realize that in an institution like this, you must have discipline. Please don't think me a foolish sentimentalist. If the order has gone out that the gang is to play croquet, and Number 6408, let us say, wants to play hopscotch, naturally you have to be firm. But discipline is one thing, harshness another. There is a difference between firmness and brutality.

I am not a bat. ~Rephaim

Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!' Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, 'No, you're a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy!

No sabía qué pensar de aquel hombre caballo con quien debía permanecer casada durante un año. Era obvio que me interesaba. Después de todo, no había conocido nunca a nadie como él. Admitamos que no hay muchos centauros corriendo por Oklahoma, al menos por Tulsa. Una no podía saber lo que pasaba en el interior del Estado. P.C. Cast, En el lugar de la diosa

Between an egg that is fried and an egg that is cremated there is a wide and substantial difference.

It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

England still firmly believes that wealth accrues to every resident of New York by some mysterious process not understandable of the Briton.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that. And I had to begin by ceasing to loathe myself for my difference from the rest.

She honored the margins; the wild side made all the difference.

one afflicted with all the hurt and burden and grandeur of memory. I wondered if they could see the difference.

How strange to be in a dream one moment and in the world the next, and to know the difference in the blink of an eye.

There's a difference," he said, between sorcery and magic. Magic is inherent everywhere, in everything; it cannot lie and it cannot be deceived. Sorcery can lie, can twist, can delude. It may be that you have a gift for one but not the other.