Quotes About Judgment

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.

Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

By evil report and good report.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

Just because you're beautiful, they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.