Quotes About Judgment

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place

Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

le mauvais goût mène au crime (Thaddeus Sholto)

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness

The cautious seldom err.

When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.

The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbour's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy'?

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised

How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?

There is no description of a fool that you fail to satisfy.

The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here for a good time or if indeed they knew why they were here at all. Everybody dont have to have a reason to be someplace. That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgement day in some old apocalyptic painting.

Vive in silenzio il Dio che ha purgato questa terra con sale e cenere.

Females of domestic reputation lounged upon the balconies they passed with faces gotten up in indigo and almagre gaudy as the rumps of apes and they peered from behind their fans with a kind of lurid coyness like transvestites in a madhouse.