Quotes About Opinion

Lee had a low opinion of black abilities, and thought that Virginia would be better off it its freed black population now migrated south into the Cotton States. On the other hand, four years before the war he had written, "Slavery as an institution, is a moral and political evil in any country," and in a postwar conversation he was to say, "I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,They damn those authors whom they never read.

And if you don't believe me or even Charley, remember that Warren Buffett, perhaps the greatest investor of our time, has opined that all investors would be better off if their portfolio contained a diversified group of index funds.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice favour runs in favour of two.

Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim.

Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors, and made to support the Party.

My opinion, miss," returned Mr. Cruncher, "is as you're right. Likewise wot I'll stand by you, right or wrong.

I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.

Freedom of opinion! Where is it? I see a press more mean and paltry and silly and disgraceful than any country ever knew, - if that be its standard, here it is. ... I speak of Miss Martineau, and all parties... shower down upon her a perfect cataract of abuse. "But what has she done? Surely she praised America enough!" - "Yes, but she told us of some of our faults, and Americans can't bear to be told of their faults.

There is nothing I would not have given you to have had you deserve my old opinion of you; nothing!

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noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted

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Whether an exceedingly small expansion of eye be sufficient to quell paupers, who, being lightly fed, are in no very high condition; or whether the late Mrs Corney was particularly proff against eagle glances; are matters of opinion. The matter of fact is, that the matron was in no way overpowered by Mr Bumble's scowl, but, on the contrary, treated it with great disdain, and even raised a laugh thereat, which sounded as though it were genuine.

We Britons had at that time particularly settled that it was treasonable to doubt our having and our being the best of every thing; otherwise, while I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and smoky.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments