Quotes About Opinion

he had no desire whatever to marry Mary and live in Scotland.

Asked point-blank about Mary's opinion of him, Melville dissembled.

Madam, change your opinion and repent you of your former wickedness, and settle your faith only in Jesus Christ

Soon Mary herself was in the court of public opinion.

He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.

THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

He hadn't known many British, but some of them seemed crazy to him, and so it seemed a small thing to agree to—and Wally thought it was wise to agree with whoever it was who held the catheter.

If women are Republicans, they've been brainwashed—the men have brainwashed them," Nana said.

As for Dr. Zajac's modest contribution to the ongoing pollution of the Charles River… well, let's be fair… In his hopelessly old-fashioned opinion, a lot worse than dogshit was dumped into the Charles on daily basis.

And Clark clearly knew and disapproved of El Nido. (A nido could be a nest, a den, a hole, a haunt.)

Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They

for a novelist, in Candy's opinion, was also a kind of impostor doctor, but a good doctor nonetheless.

I really like the sex in your novels," Dorothy told him. "I like how you do it." "I like it better," Miriam said to him, giving her daughter an all-knowing look. "I have the perspective to know what really bad sex is," Dorothy's mom told her. "Please, Mother—don't paint us a picture," Dorothy said.

It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine. (on Tom Wolfe)

it is history that holds you accountable, and I've already expressed my opinion that Americans are not big on history. How many of them even remember their own, recent history? Was twenty years ago so long ago for Americans?

I guess that's just one of the reasons it's the most beautiful bar in the world, in my opinion: it has the grace to make no one feel self-conscious about any unhappiness.

I find it a pity that freedom to disagree was not tolerated here today." Cooper

But even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself, but from some Character in whose soul I now live. I am sure however that this next sentence is from myself—I feel your anxiety, good opinion, and friendship, in the highest degree, and am Yours most sincerely John Keats.

Had you 'artists' had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train terminal," Ignatius snorted.

I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I'll pour water on her.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic. We

I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances – the curtains were up. GROUCHO MARX

Disco sucks? You never heard that from me.