Quotes About Judgment

In the 1880s the focus of the feud had been adultery; in the 1890s the focus shifted to the divided treasure the poet had left behind. Who had the right to possess her? Who had the right to say what she was?

This was a girl who could tell the difference between the page that perishes and the page that endures.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to get a life by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.

No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, Good food at it's best, you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked uo on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

Love is love and shouldn't upset anyone. So what else are they thinking about when they get upset at your partner preferences?" she asked reasonably, and then answered the question herself. "Their minds are in your pants and on what you do. And while they're welcome to bury their brain in their own pants, they have no business in yours.

Sitting in a van twiddling my thumbs while you bone up is one thing, but attacking her? No way. Bone up? Cale asked uncertainly. Get a boner, the man explained, and then added, Or an erection to those of us too damned old to know modern lingo... not to mention be able to judge character anymore.

When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade.

Sometimes the best way of killing a person is to let him choose his own fate.

Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics.

Es posible que mañana muera, y en la tierra no quedará nadie que me haya comprendido por completo. Unos me considerarán peor y otros mejor de lo que soy. Algunos dirán que era una buena persona; otros, que era un canalla. Pero las dos opiniones serán igualmente equivocadas.

We see what we want to see when we look at someone. Like a diamond before it has been cut. We can guess at its brilliance but can't see the faults until the stone has been cut and polished. Only then can we glimpse inside and see the occlusions and the clarity. 

O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.

Há homens que da simples contradita do adversário concluem pela incompetência dele.

Conquanto fosse muito mais baixa que eu, dera um jeito tão superior na cabeça que parecia olhar de cima.

coisa em si pecaminosa, porque sem pecadores não há inferno, nem purgatório, e sem estes dois lugares o céu valeria menos.

it will earn neither the esteem of the grave nor the love of the frivolous, who are the two highest columns of opinion.

Conscience is just the same; it examines itself often whenever it thinks it looks good. And remorse is nothing more than the scowl of a conscience seeing its own vileness.

No dia seguinte entrou a dizer de mim nomes feios, e acabou alcunhando-me  Dom Casmurro. Os vizinhos, que não gostam dos meus hábitos reclusos e calados, deram curso à alcunha, que afinal pegou. 

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.

Quod Principi plaevit habet legis vigorem

De modo geral, os homens julgam mais com os olhos do que com o tato: todos podem ver, mas poucos são capazes de sentir. Todos veem nossa aparência, poucos sentem o que realmente somos [...]