Invidious Comparison Quotes

#1. If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man
not to make any invidious comparison
is always sold to the institution which makes him rich ... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. She lives with man on terms of equality, knows nothing of that relation of status which is the ancient basis of all distinctions of worth, honor, and repute, and she does not lend herself with facility to an invidious comparison between her owner and his neighbors.

Thorstein Veblen

#3. Think about what I said, Kat. You have nothing to prove."
"I don't?"
"No," I said, and I'd say it a thousand times.
But I knew screaming it from the top of Seneca Rocks wasn't going to change how she felt.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. The money is too good to say no.

Ali Parker

#5. I don't mind being introduced to people's skeletons firsthand, in person. I more than don't mind it. I prefer to reach right into the closet and shake their bony hands and say hello for myself.

Emery Lord

#6. Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

Anne Fortier

#7. The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

Peter Garrett

#8. As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

Billy Eckstine

#9. You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

Anthony Trollope

#10. Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

St. Vincent

#11. I only eat spicy food.

Joshua Ledet

#12. Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

Lisa McMann

#13. Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

Ronald Reagan

#14. The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

LaToya Jackson