Comparison Quotes

587 quotes by 527 authors

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being… — Aldous Huxley
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself… — C.S. Lewis
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes… — C.S. Lewis
The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison,… — Mary Roach
if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes… — W. Somerset Maugham
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in… — Sigmund Freud
GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE… — Dave Eggers
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,… — Milan Kundera
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days… — Dean Koontz
Thatâ€™s a pretty lame superhero name,â€ I told him. â€œScooby-Doo is already taken,â€ he said with dignity. â€œAnything else sounds lame in comparison. — Patricia Briggs
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and… — Vladimir Nabokov
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were… — Nancy Mitford
Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two… — Joseph Heller
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and… — Azar Nafisi
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business… — Brenda Ueland
The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From… — Jeffrey Eugenides
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons… — Graham Greene

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