Quotes About Judgment

I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements.

She shook her head, "No, I could tell if they were safe after talking to them for five minutes or so. I was only beaten up twice…" Only twice.

pray that I may Live to fish Until my dying day And when it comes To my last cast, I then most humbly pray, When in the Lord's Great hanging net And peacefully asleep That in His mercy I be judged— BIG ENOUGH TO KEEP!

Tom took Susan to his mother's house and introduced her to Marguerite. Thereafter, when his mother referred to Susan, she called her "that slutty little girl," which Tom and Susan found hilarious. When he sent Susan notes, Tom addressed them to "Dear Slutty Little Girl.

Men are strange beings, and must not be judged by rules that apply to women.

Perhaps only when we've made our peace with our own selves can we really be the kind of friends who listen, advise, but don't judge, or not too harshly.

Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.

It was easy to figure out how people ought to behave out in the world if you never went out in the world yourself.

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I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required.

Peter was easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. But Rebecca forgave him nothing. She told herself that this was not because he

People froze you in place

If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence; while, if she is plain and good, provided she is a person of retired manners and secluded life, no one ever knows of her goodness, except her immediate connections

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?

If you would but consider your own unattractive exterior, your unamiable reserve, your foolish diffidence, which must make you appear cold, dull, awkward, and perhaps ill-tempered too;… if you had but rightly considered these from the beginning, you would never have harboured such presumptuous thoughts; and now that you have been so foolish, pray repent and amend, and let us have no more of it!

I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.' 'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.

I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.

I can conceive few situations more harassing than that wherein, however you may long for success, however you may labour to fulfil your duty, your efforts are baffled and set at nought by those beneath you, and unjustly censured and misjudged by those above.

When we hear a little good and no harm of a person, it is easy and pleasant to imagine more:

animadversions

Es tonto desear la belleza. Las personas sensatas nunca la desean para sí ni le dan importancia en los demás. Si la mente está bien cultivada y el corazón bien dispuesto, a nadie le importa el exterior. Eso decían los profesores de nuestra infancia, y eso decimos nosotros a los niños de hoy. Todo muy juicioso y correcto, sin duda, pero ¿la experiencia apoya tales afirmaciones?