Quotes About Judgment

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris'. 'Where do bad Americans go?' 'They stay in America'.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.