Quotes About Judgment

He had frequently called for capital punishment on criminals, and owing to his irresistible eloquence they had been condemned, and yet the slightest shadow of remorse had never clouded Villefort's brow, because they were guilty; at least, he believed so; but here was an innocent man whose happiness he had destroyed. In this case he was not the judge, but the executioner.

Cornelius was stretched on his couch, with broken wrists and crushed fingers. He had not confessed a crime of which he was not guilty; and now, after three days of agony, he once more breathed freely, on being informed that the judges, from whom he had expected death, were only condemning him to exile.

You are forgetting the person who advised him.' 'Pah! If one were to be held to account for every remark one lets fall …' 'Yes, when it falls point downwards.

The brothers De Witt have been judged by the people, said Gryphus; you call that murdered, do you? well, I call it executed.

Le comte jeta autour de lui un regard dont l'expression désespérée eût touché des tigres, mais il ne pouvait désarmer des juges ; puis il leva les yeux vers la voûte, et les détourna aussitôt, comme s'il eût craint que cette voûte, en s'ouvrant, ne fît resplendir ce second tribunal qui se nomme le ciel, cet autre juge qui s'appelle Dieu.

Je n'aime pas les bruns qui chantent blond. –

Ivrogne tant que tu le voudras ; tant pis pour ceux qui craignent le vin, c'est qu'ils ont quelque mauvaise pensée qu'ils craignent que le vin ne leur tire du cœur... Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau, C'est bien prouvé par le déluge.

Sólo hace dos meses que la conozco ––replicó el conde. ––Y el señor sólo hace cinco minutos que me conoce. No dic e usted más que tonterías. Las mujeres son despiadadas con las personas que no son de su agrado.

Pentru Dumnezeu, doamn?! r?spunse procurorul regal cu o t?rie care nu era lipsit? de usc?ciune; pentru Dumnezeu, nu-mi cereÈ›i graÈ›ie pentru vinovat. Ce sunt eu? Legea. Are ochi legea s? vad? tristeÈ›ea dumneavoastr?? Are urechi legea s? aud? glasul dumneavoastr? blând? Nu, doamn?, legea porunceÈ™te, iar când legea a poruncit, loveÈ™te.

It is the civil jury that really saved the liberties of England.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.

Everyone shuts himself up tightly within himself and insists upon judging the world from there.

At periods of equality men have no faith in one another, by reason of their common resemblance; but this very resemblance gives them almost unbounded confidence in the judgment of the public; for it would not seem probable, as they are all endowed with equal means of judging, but that the greater truth should go with the greater number.

The people never find the time or the means to devote to this work. They have always to come to hasty judgments and to latch on to the most obvious of features. As a result, charlatans of all kinds know full well the secret of pleasing the people whereas more often than not their real friends fail to do so.

Again, the most effective (and least destructive) way to help a child succeed—whether she's writing or skiing, playing a trumpet or a computer game—is to do everything possible to help her fall in love with what she's doing, to pay less attention to how successful she was (or is likely to be) and show more interest in the task. That's just another way of saying that we need to encourage more, judge less, and love always.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

Other people's judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Mrs. Dale was a good woman, Hollis will grant her that. A busybody and a pain in the neck, but she never judged what she didn't understand and that Hollis knows, is rare. Unlike Alan and the boys in the village, she treated him fairly, but that doesn't mean he has to moan and bellyache down at the funeral parlor. Ashes to ashes, that's all there is. If you can't change a fact of life, then be smart enough to walk away from it.

For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.

That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing, Frances informs her niece. That's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.