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Double Standard Quotes

1.
You dirty, double-crossing rat.
James Cagney

Authors on Double Standard Quotes: Verne Troyer Winston Churchill Glenn Danzig Thomas Huxley Catherine Deneuve Francis Crick Vera Miles David Cannadine Mary Kay Ash Jesse Ventura Oscar Levant W. H. Auden Peter Schjeldahl Gloria Steinem Tinashe Betty Dodson Lee Konitz David Wong LIZ John le Carre Fernando Perez Warren Buffett Barbara Mikulski Kenny Guinn Seymour Hersh Burt Prelutsky James Cagney Tariq Ramadan Doc Hastings Lloyd Bridges Joseph Stiglitz Kate Clinton William Makepeace Thackeray
2.
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Lee Konitz

3.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

4.
Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

5.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Frank Murphy

6.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

7.
Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
Arnold Rothstein

8.
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant

9.
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
Oriana Fallaci

10.
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
Vera Miles

11.
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
Verne Troyer

12.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus

13.
The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.
Roy Barnes

14.
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden

15.
Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we're currently living under.
Betty Dodson

16.
He slides into second with a stand-up double.
Jerry Coleman

17.
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
John le Carre

18.
This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.
Doc Hastings

19.
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
Dorothy L. Sayers

20.
Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
Paul Volcker

21.
My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.
Sarah Millican

22.
Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.
Tinashe

23.
If you're injured in an automobile accident, and you sue the driver, you get much more for your injury than if you're fighting for your country. There's a double standard here.
Joseph Stiglitz

24.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller

25.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation,
and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Thomas Huxley

26.
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
Francis Crick

27.
Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.
Mary Kay Ash

28.
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
Warren Buffett

29.
If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.
Jesse Ventura

30.
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
Gloria Steinem

31.
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
Aldrich Ames

32.
Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.
Kenny Guinn

33.
I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.
Peter Banks

34.
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
Douglas Coupland

35.
Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.
Tariq Ramadan

36.
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
Catherine Deneuve

37.
Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.
George Carlin

38.
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King

39.
If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
Burt Prelutsky

40.
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
William Makepeace Thackeray

41.
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
William Petty

42.
I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.
LIZ

43.
But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.
Glenn Danzig

44.
If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
Verne Troyer

45.
Fox doesn't treat me any differently, and that's one thing I'm very lucky with - my network treats me like a woman, but they never make me feel like I don't fit in or anything like that, which is great. But within the industry, yeah. It's a double standard, but it's something that you have to deal with or try to make better; turn into a positive.
Erin Andrews

46.
It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.
Fernando Perez

47.
I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.
Dar Williams

48.
It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.
Alvin Lee

49.
Charles Graner is certainly guilty of terrible misjudgment. There's always a double standard. Everyone was happy to go to Graner's trial and write stories about how bad he is. And he is. But every time he tried to get an officer to testify, the officer either would invoke the Fifth Amendment or the judge would refuse to allow him to testify. We really didn't air out the issues.
Seymour Hersh

50.
Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.
Lloyd Bridges