Quotes About Judgment

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

Only poor men get hanged.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

"You're an old man who dresses like a Hooter's waitress."

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back