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Quotes About Judgment

The prince's robes and beggar's rags, Are toadstools on the miser's bags. A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent
~ William Blake
Every harlot was a virgin once
~ William Blake
In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.
~ William Blake
Imitation is criticism.
~ William Blake
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
~ William Blake
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the last judgment draweth nigh.
~ William Blake
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool
~ William Blake
I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness, And put on Intellect; or my thund'rous hammer shall drive thee To wrath, which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.
~ William Blake
The selfish, smiling fool, and the sullen, frowning fool shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.
~ William Blake
In a time of dearth, come forth with weight and measure.
~ William Blake
any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child's fringe has something suspect about him
~ William Boyd
Ben has been a discreet and true friend, given he was an usher at my wedding. I tried to explain the situation vis-à-vis Lottie but he didn't want to hear. 'I don't care, Logan. You live your life and I'll live mine. I won't judge you? just as long as you're happy. I'd hope you'd do the same for me.' I assured him I would.
~ William Boyd
But you have to admit there are great photographs,' I said. 'All right..There are memorable photographs. Remarkable photographs.' 'So, what makes them memorable or remarkable? What criteria do you use to judge them? To make that decision?' 'I don't think about it. I just know. Instinct.' 'Then maybe you should think about it. You judge a great photo in the same way you judge a great painting or a film or a play or a statue. It's art mon ami
~ William Boyd
The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority of human beings. Only a few philosophers would disagree.
~ William Boyd
There was something facile and shallow about male beauty, she thought.
~ William Boyd
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI The Prince Standard year circa 1513
~ William C. Dietz
The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
~ William Carlos Williams
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
~ William Carlos Williams
After some years of varied experience with the bodies of the rich and the poor a man finds little to distinguish between them, bulks them as one and bases his working judgements on other matters.
~ William Carlos Williams
There is no fire in hell," he reported. "Everyone who goes there brings their own fire, and their own pain, from this world.
~ William Dalrymple
Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
~ William Faulkner
It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
~ William Faulkner
It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.
~ William Faulkner
Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.
~ William Faulkner