Quotes About Judgment

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.

To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough – more than enough, I should imagine.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.

Es perfectamente monstruoso -dijo por fin- la costumbre que tiene la gente hoy día de hablar a espaldas de uno y decir de él cosas que son completa y absolutamente ciertas.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

My first impressions of people are invariably right.

LORD ILLINGWORTH. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. LADY

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. 

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

Scelgo i miei amici per la loro bellezza, le mie conoscenze per la loro rispettabilità, e i miei nemici per la loro intelligenza.

Yes: the public is wonderfully tolerant.  It forgives everything except genius. 

I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

Non vi sono libri morali o libri immorali. Vi sono libri scritti bene e libri scritti male, e nient'altro.

The world has cried out against us both, but it has always worshipped you.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?  They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.