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Quotes about Comparisons


Comparisons are odious.

Sir John Fortescue

Comparisons are odious.

Christopher Marlowe

Comparisons are odorous.

William Shakespeare

She and comparisons are odious.

John Donne

Comparisons are odious.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It may be that love turned to hate is terribly common in sexual matters: it may be that hate turned to love is not uncommon in the rivalries of race or class. But any philosophy about the sexes that begins with anything but the mutual attraction of the sexes, begins with a fallacy; and all its historical comparisons are as irrelevant and impertinent as puns.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.

Robert Burns

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

Comparisons are odious.

George Herbert

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

John Lydgate

Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele: Fine pictures suit in frames as fine, Consistencie's a jewell. For thee and me coarse cloathes are best, Rude folks in homelye raiment drest, Wife Joan and goodman Robin.

Terence (Publius Terentius Unknown

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

Horace (Quintus Horatius Junius

Comparisons are odorous. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.

Isaac Junius

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