Quotes About Judgment

In the final round of the game, if your company has admitted women to the play, I do not recommend that you vote for your paramour, or for the member of the company who has taken your fancy. In my experience it rarely leads to success; and your fellows will notice and make fun of your noble gesture for weeks.

The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom. Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.

A slimy lawyer is calling someone else sinister? He who is without sin . . .

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

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Furthermore, when someone dies, why do they become a saint and suddenly blameless? Because no one wants to hear what he was really like," she said, answering her own question.

Maybe instead of worrying about Shelly's marriage, she should examine her own.

We can all recall acquaintances of whose integrity of purpose we can have no doubt, but who cause much confusion as they proceed to the accomplishment of that purpose, who indeed are often insensible to their own mistakes and harsh in their judgments of other people because they are so confident of their own inner integrity.

But stranger than any episode was the fact itself that neither the convict, his wife, nor his godfather for a moment considered him a criminal. He had merely gotten excited over cards and had stabbed his adversary with a knife. Why should a man who took his luck badly be kept forever from the sun? was their reiterated inquiry.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge. -Elinor Dashwood

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself...My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Fitzwilliam Darcy

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Evil to some is always good to others

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.