Quotes About Judgment

Cualquiera que le diga palabras sabias a un ignorante parecerá que no está en su sano juicio (Las Bacantes, 409 aC)

ETEO. Having chosen them for boldness, or prudence in judgment? CRE. For both; for one without the other availeth nothing.

Because you suffer, why should you so arrogantly include all women in one general reproach?

Goodness me, Charlotte, she went on, much her old self again, who on earth ever fell in love with anyone who looked handsome? What a ghastly bore handsome is.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

On taxi-dancing. She said the men prefer her because she is clean.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up

Comparisons are odious.

Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents. --Cousin Jasper

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.' 'I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might almost call it a course of action) which I can neither understand nor excuse. I dare say I need not particularise.

There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a rival good to God's.

But is there a difference between liking a thing and thinking it good?

I can quite understand that many people may be depressed by the spectacle of naked humanity. Personally I cannot see that an ugly body is any more offensive than an ugly dress.

Always wear a tall hat on Sundays during term. It is by that, more than anything, that a man is judged.' And do you know," continued my father, snuffling deeply, "I always did. Some men did, some didn't. I never saw any difference between them or heard it commented on, but I always wore mine. It only shows what effect judicious advice can have, properly delivered at the right moment.

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.

Ned, he said, there is one thing I must beg of you. Always wear a tall hat on Sundays during term. It is by that, more than anything, that a man is judged.

Well, I do call that a lot of nonsense. I can understand a man wishing he hadn't married and trying to get out of it—though I never felt anything of the kind myself—but to get rid of one wife and take up with another immediately, is beyond all reason.

These were not just Mao's mistakes, they were all our mistakes. Many of us made mistakes; we lacked experience and had poor judgment." He added, "We are very poor. We are very backward. We have to recognize that. We have a lot to do, a long way to go and a lot to learn.

Whenever you feel like criticising any one, just remember that all of the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Cuando sientas deseos de criticar a alguien" -fueron sus palabras- "recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las mismas oportunidades que tú tuviste.

Whenever you feel like criticising any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.