Quotes About Judgment

Be not too confiding, nor frivolous, nor over enthusiastic, —three rocks on which youth often strikes. Too confiding a nature loses respect, frivolity brings contempt, and others take advantage of excessive enthusiasm.

My dress, which dazzled me as I paraded alone in my white-and-gold drawing-room, was barely noticeable amidst the gorgeous finery of most of the married women. Each had her band of faithful followers, and they all watched each other askance. A few were radiant in triumphant beauty, and amongst these was my mother. A girl at a ball is a mere dancing-machine — a thing of no consequence whatever.

Una mujer bella puede ser ella misma a su antojo; la sociedad le pasa siempre por alto una tontería o una torpeza, mientras que una sola mirada detiene la más magnífica expresión en los labios de una mujer fea, intimida sus ojos, aumenta la poca gracia de sus ademanes, coarta su actitud. Bien sabe que sólo a ella se le prohíbe cometer faltas, que todos le niegan el don de repararlas, y, por lo demás, nadie le proporciona la ocasión de ello.

Estos dos jóvenes juzgaban a la sociedad desde tanta más altura cuanto más abajo se encontraban situados en la escala social, ya que los hombres desconocidos se vengan de lo modesto de su posición con su elevación de miras.

Llega un momento, en la vida interior de las familias, que los hijos, voluntaria o involuntariamente, se convierten en jueces de sus padres

The handsomest wondered at her easy surrender. The men could not understand such luck as the Baron's, not regarding him as particularly fascinating. A few indulgent women said it was not fair to judge the Countess too hastily; young wives would be in a very hapless plight if an expressive look or a few graceful dancing steps were enough to compromise a woman.

And, then, my daughter, my daughter! whose nurse I am, whose companion I must be; so that I can work but a few hours snatched from sleep. Ah, young man! none but the wretched can judge the wretched! Sometimes I think I used to be too stern to misery.

Los ojos comparan antes de que el corazón haya rectificado este rápido y maquinal juicio.

Abbi cura di tutto! Me ne renderai conto laggiù", dimostrando con quest'ultima parola che il cristianesimo deve essere la religione degli avari.

El genio no dependía más que de sí mismo, era el único juez de los medios de que se valía, porque solo él conocía el fin que se proponía: debía, por tanto, situarse por encima de las leyes, porque estaba llamado a rehacerlas; por otra parte, quien señorea su siglo puede tomarlo todo, arriesgarlo todo, ya que todo le pertenece.

Quand tu auras envie de critiquer quelqu'un, songe que tout le monde n'a pas joui des mêmes avantages que toi.

Conscience, my dear fellow, is a stick which every one takes up to beat his neighbor and not for application to his own back.

Por fin, Du Châtelet vio a Lucien y le dirigió uno de esos pequeños saludos, secos y fríos, con los cuales un hombre desacredita a otro dando a entender a las personas de mundo el ínfimo lugar que ocupa en la escala social.

The neck which was short and thick, seemed to tempt the axe.

Cada cual tiene su modo de amar; el mío, sin embargo, no hace mal a nadie; ¿por qué, entonces, la gente habrá de ocuparse de mí?

The man is mad!" exclaimed Bianchon. "You think so, do you?" said his uncle. "If you listen to only one bell, you hear only one sound.

You have less pity than the executioner

In the first place, my child, from what you have yourself told me, it is clear that the one unpardonable sin in society is to be happy.

A paris on trouve moyen de vous assassiner un homme en disant " il a bon cœur". Cette phrase veut dire " le pauvre garçon est bête comme un rhinocéros

The fires of remorse burned in his heart, and gave him intolerable pain, the generous secret remorse which men seldom take into account when they sit in judgement upon their fellow-men; but perhaps the angels in heaven, beholding it, pardon the criminal whom our justice condemns.

Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwittingly giving you for a portrait — a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.