Double Standard Quotes
76 quotes by 75 authors
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.
— Roy Barnes
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We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's…
— Richard Branson
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across…
— Warren Buffett
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
— John le Carre
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double…
— Winston Churchill
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We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman…
— Andrea Dworkin
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The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard,
— Olivia Wilde
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You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great…
— Ellen Page
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No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds…
— Miley Cyrus
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It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual…
— Gloria Steinem
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My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt…
— Sarah Millican
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The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire,…
— Jose Canseco
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We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard.…
— George Carlin
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
— Vera Miles
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I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little…
— Peter Banks
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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These Double Standard Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 76 Double Standard Quotes, led by these top contributors: