Quotes About Judgment

We miss you, Mom, though you were reviled to great profit in magazines and books for ruining your children – that would be us – by not loving them enough, by loving them too much, by wanting too much love from them, by some failure of love –

discretion is the better part of valour

I didn't like it when other people criticized Laura - her vagueness, her simplicity, her feckleness. Criticism of Laura was reserved for me.

Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those who have it, think differently.

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business - Rhett Butler

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to–to judge others by ourselves.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

She thinks I'm a hussy,' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that!

She only did—did what she felt she had to do. And our men did what they felt they had to do. People must do what they must do. We don't all think alike or act alike and it's wrong to—to judge others by ourselves.

The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards. "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought

Then why is your mouth all pursed up in that ridiculous way?

Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question.

you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.

Tesoro, il mondo perdona, in fin dei conti, tutto, meno il fatto che la gente si occupi dei fatti propri.

I'm sure your children won't approve of you, Scarlett, any more than Mrs. Merriwether and Mrs. Elsing and their broods approve of you now. Your children will probably be soft, prissy creatures, as the children of hard-bitten characters usually are. And to make them worse, you, like every other mother, are probably determined that they shall never know the hardships you've known. And that's all wrong. Hardships make or break people. So you'll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.