“She, and comparisons are odious.”
No. 8, The Comparison, line 54. Compare: "Comparisons are odious", John Fortescue, De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ, Chap. xix; "Comparisons are odorous", William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act iii, scene v
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De laudibus legum Angliae (c. 1470), ch. xix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lust's Dominion (c. 1600), Act iii. scene 4. The first edition attributed the authorship of this play to Marlowe, though this attribution has been recognized as spurious by critics and scholars for nearly two centuries. See Logan and Smith, Predecessors of Shakespeare, p. 32. But compare: "Comparisons are odious", John Fortescue, De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ, Chapter xix.
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 23.
“714. Comparisons are odious.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“1134. Comparisons are odious.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.”
Maxim 44, p. 259
Maxims for Her Nuns (1963)
quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.
