Comparisons are odious. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Women were made to give our eyes delight;
A female sloven is an odious sight. [ Young ]

See Time has touched me gently in his race.
And left no odious furrows in my face. [ Crabbe ]

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility. [ Tacitus ]

Pride is the most uneasy thing in the world, and the most odious. [ Proverb ]

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. [ Thomas Sprat ]

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]