Quotes About Opinion

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

Agent Donald Maass, who has written a superb book called Writing the Breakout Novel, is of the opinion

There is no one as intolerant as an open minded liberal.

Surely the desired end product of high school U.S. history courses is graduates who can think clearly, distinguish evidence from opinion, and separate truth from what comedian Stephen Colbert famously called "truthiness.

A person can be completely right about something but still not have the right to say it.

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Nothing is more deceitful, said Darcy, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Yes, replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

My object then, replied Darcy, was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself...My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Fitzwilliam Darcy

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

Cuando alguien ha perdido mi buena opinión, perdida la tiene para siempre.

Upon my word, said her ladyship, you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?