Quotes About Judgment

There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.

Be wary of folly.

When do you bleed a patient?" The question brought me up short. "When I want him to die?" I asked dubiously.

What is a whore?" Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with." Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.

Now," Kvothe said angrily, "you've both acted understandably, but that does not by any means mean that either of you have behaved well.

No fue solo culpa mía —puntualicé. —No se trata de ser o no culpable —razonó Manet—. Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo.

La cautela es siempre la herramienta de la sabiduría.

but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

That's the problem," I said. "He's nice. He's gentle, which people see as weak. And he's happy, which people see as stupid.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

Prefiero tocar canciones que divierten a mis amigos que complacer a quienes me juzgan basándose solo en habladurías" - Kvothe

He had an easy manner and an honest smile. He seemed an earnest man. I did not like him.

We talked about who we liked in the University, but more time was spent mulling over who we didn't like, and why, and what we would do about it given the chance. Such is human nature.

I thought I might be a little crazy." "You still might be," she said. "I'm not a good touchstone to use for judging your sanity." "Do you feel crazy?" She shook her head, a half smile curling the corner of her mouth. "No. How about you?" "Not particularly." "That's either good or bad, depending," she said. "How do you propose we go about solving the mystery of the ages?

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite." Hetera

If a leg goes bad, you cut it off." She made a firm gesture with the flat of her hand, then picked up her slice of pudding and began to eat it with her fingers. "And some folk need killing. That's all there is to it.

And some folk need killing. That's all there is to it.

Al pan, pan y al vino, vino. Pero a una prostituta llámala siempre señora. La vida de las prostitutas es muy dura, y no cuesta nada ser respetuoso con ellas.

The difference is between saying something TO a person and saying something ABOUT a person. The first might be rude but the second is always gossip".

I am not accusing you of engaging in boyish fancy. I am advising you to avoid the appearance of boyish fancy. Master Loren to Kvothe

Todo vuelve a las cenizas, así que esta carne también arderá. Pero yo soy Tehlu. Hijo de mí mismo. Padre de mí mismo. Yo estaba antes, y estaré después. Si soy un sacrificio, lo soy únicamente a mí mismo. Y si alguien me necesita y me invoca de la forma correcta, volveré para juzgar y castigar.

He's gentle, which people see as weak. And he's happy, which people see as stupid.

Caution is always wisdom's tool.

If I had been born a couple hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon.