Quotes About Judgment

Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful-- and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex. ~Mary Bennett, P&P

when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?

Cuando alguien ha perdido mi buena opinión, perdida la tiene para siempre.

I pay very little regard, said Mrs. Grant, to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Upon my word, said her ladyship, you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern-- and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.