Comparative Judgment Quotes

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

I don't want to be judged next to guys like Suge Knight. I want to be measured next to David Geffen, Irving Azoff, and Clive Davis. Whether I measure up or not, I let my record speak for me. That's how I want to be judged - by what I've done, not by what people like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre have said about me.

[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is.

Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

The other man's arse is always cleaner!

As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.

Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad.

How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's?

On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who's to say '12 Years A Slave' is a better film than 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

In politics you have to say, compared to what?