Quotes About Opinion

We may compare the opinion that the older actors entertained of their successors. Mynniscus used to call Callippides 'ape' on account of the extravagance of his action, and the same view was held of Pindarus.

I hate all the arts! you say. My dear sir, I respect you more and more.

I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.

No one has ever questioned the credentials of a critic who writes a rave notice.

Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality.

Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.

what I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.

I am not a whole sole admirer of womankind – as you are aware, Watson.

Este hombre tal vez sea muy inteligente, pero, desde luego, es insufriblemente engreído».

No me cabe duda que usted cree hacerme una lisonja comparándome con Dupin. Pero en mi opinión, Dupin era un hombre que valía muy poco. […] Sin duda, poseía algo de genio analítico; pero no era, en modo alguno, un fenómeno, según parece imaginárselo Poe.

I'm not going to rate books--there are too many variables. I'd rather talk about the reading experience.

Um homem sem barba - desculpe, meu caro rapaz - nunca parece bem vestido, é o que minha esposa diz.

The state demands the utmost obedience and sacrifice of its citizens, but at the same time, it treats them as children through an excess of secrecy, and a censorship of news and expression of opinion, which render the minds of those who are, thus, intellectually repressed, defenseless against every unfavorable situation, and every wild rumor.

My gynecologist said my pussy looks weird.

characters. When I was teaching I noticed that, each year, my students' opinion of writers seemed to have sunk a little lower. But what does it mean when people who want to be writers see writers in such a negative light? Can you imagine a dance student feeling that way about the New York City Ballet? Or young athletes despising Olympic champions?

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else.

The institutions that regulate the public life of a country always influence the general mentality – such is the prestige of power. People have progressively developed the habit of thinking, in all domains, only in terms of being 'in favour of' or 'against' any opinion, and afterwards they seek arguments to support one of these two options. This is an exact transposition of the party spirit.

The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.

Mrs. Pike, ought to know that freedom of speech becomes mere license when it goes so far as to criticize the Army, differ with the D.A.R., and advocate the rights of the Mob.

Doremus declared that the house was ugly, "but ugly in a nice way.

For the first time in America, except during the Civil War and the World War, people were afraid to say whatever came to their tongues.

West of Chicago, You bet means Rather, and Yes indeed, and On the whole I should be inclined to fancy that there may be some vestiges of accuracy in your curious opinion, and You're a liar but I can't afford to say so.

He believed that dissent—even a cranky, erratic, eccentric, old-fashioned version of it—was not disloyalty but at the heart of an American democratic identity.