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Quotes About Judgment

Para un hombre que ha cometido una falta no conozco censor más implacable que sus propios parientes.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
A judge's disposition should be about evenly balanced between sail and anchor. He cannot be anchored to the past mechanically, but he ought not be moved by every puff of novel doctrine.
~ William Rehnquist
Thine face is not worth sunburning.
~ William Shakespeare
There's small choice in rotten apples.
~ William Shakespeare
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
~ William Shakespeare
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
~ William Shakespeare
I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
~ William Shakespeare
Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.
~ William Shakespeare
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
~ William Shakespeare
Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)
~ William Shakespeare
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
~ William Shakespeare
Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
~ William Shakespeare
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
~ William Shakespeare
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous
~ William Shakespeare
Your if is the only peacemaker; much virtue in if.
~ William Shakespeare
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves...
~ William Shakespeare
The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
~ William Shakespeare
None can be called deformed but the unkind.
~ William Shakespeare
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.
~ William Shakespeare
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.
~ William Shakespeare
Scratching could not make it worse. . . such a face as yours.
~ William Shakespeare
Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.
~ William Shakespeare
I hope my noble lord esteems me honest. OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles, That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born! DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed? OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book, Made to write "whore" upon?
~ William Shakespeare