Quotes About Judgment

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I pity his ignorance and despise him.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice favour runs in favour of two.

You are a young man," she said, nodding. "Take a word of advice, even from three foot nothing. Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Every man thinks his own geese swans.

It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.

Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.

His shoes looked too large; his sleeve looked too long; his hair looked too limp; his features looked too mean; his exposed throat looked as if a halter would have done it good.