Quotes About Judgment

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation must form our judgement.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.

A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Better silent than stupid.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.