Quotes About Judgment

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

O shame! where is thy blush?

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

Oh father Abraham, what kind of people are these Christians? Their own meanness teaches them to suspect other people!

Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got'st thou that goose look?

What I can do can do no hurt to try, Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy. He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd when others are more wicked; not being the worst stands in some rank of praise.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?

Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.

This is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot.

We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.

That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him. His complexion is perfect gallows.

As his own state and ours, 'tis to be chid—As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge, Pawn their experience to their present pleasure, And so rebel to judgment.

Well, time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let me try.

In fact, suggests Lewis, the entrance to the netherworld, where every evil will find its comeuppance, is locked from the inside, the damned souls having slammed shut every possible door that may lead the repentant sinner to God.

Shame to him whose cruel striking, kills for thoughts of his own liking.

The apparel oft proclaims the man

twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this:—That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel.—THEOBALD.

For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.

All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.