Quotes About Judgment

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

As for the wine in the cups, it looked like water; but, as it tasted all right, what did its looks signify?

They are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you.

Criticism is a life without risk.

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.

Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

You needn't trouble yourself. He's only a librarian.

I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs.

Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly has issues

Zuzana wondered if she could have been wrong about him, but dismissed the thought. Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly had issues. Just looking at him made her wish she had a paintball gun, but hell, you couldn't pack for every eventuality.

Don't leave. And don't let him leave, either. I have threats to deliver. Judgments to pass.

He can't see it. It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry "Monster!" and looked behind him.

One looked at him and thought, Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

Who sneers? wondered Eliza, fadingly. She'd thought it was something only book characters did.

stop living in misery because you're concerned about how things would look to other people, or because you're too scared to put yourself out there

Politics revolved solely around the presidential palace, and every day there were more reports of raids, persecutions, diatribes, and alerts. All heavy on judgment but scant on facts.

Being a teacher made life easier for him in so many ways; it gave him respectability and trust. But it also made life difficult because it meant that he had the wisdom of many books and was as such permitted no error of judgment.

Religion makes us poor judges of art.