Quotes about Comparison
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
— Erica Jong
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
— Benjamin Disraeli
And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?
— Benjamin Disraeli
The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, a favoured and peculiar people.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I thought I had more of a European sense of humour than the average American comic.
— Bo Burnham
You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...
— Graham Cooke
Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.
— Graham Greene
Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.
— Graham Greene
Do you know that St Matthew mentions Hell fifteen times in fifty-two pages of my bible and St John not once?
— Graham Greene
We judge others harshly in order to judge ourselves with approval.
— Gregory Boyd
I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.
— Shura
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
— Robert Brault