Quotes About Judgment

Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

Whatever the verdict on my presidency, I'm comfortable with the fact that I won't be around to hear it. That's a decision point only history will reach.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Never attach where it is obvious

What seems to be unspeakable weakness can sometimes be just distaste for the generally accepted morality.

Ce sont, en fin de compte, les malades qui jugent le plus souvent, et de points de vue très divers, s'ils ne sont plus normaux ou s'ils le sont redevenus. Redevenir normal, pour un homme dont l'avenir est presque toujours imaginé à partir de l'expérience passée, c'est reprendre une activité interrompue, ou du moins une activité jugée équivalente d'après les goûts individuels ou les valeurs sociales du milieu.

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast! I don't think much of that,he said critically. Amiable snake was much better.

How is this? she demanded I had thought a Marquis must always be acceptable! That, Miss Merriville, Depends on the Marquis!

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.

Mrs Hendred was a very pretty woman of great good-nature and much less than commonsense.

Have you considered what people would be bound to say?' Frederick said. 'No, nor do I propose to burden my head with anything that interests me so little!' retorted Mr Beaumaris.

She had herself been sadly disappointed, for she had thought him a man of sense, certainly not one to be succumbing to childish ailments at inopportune moments.

She wasn't as foolish as her sister, but she had more hair than wit

But the very qualities which had fascinated Denville in the girl offended him in the wife..

Would you believe it? – the instant she clapped eyes on me, she said that she saw I had taken to dyeing my hair! I was never more shocked, for it is quite untrue! It is not dyeing one's hair merely to restore its colour when it begins to fade a little! I denied it, of course, but all she did was to give the horridest laugh, which made me feel ready to sink, as you may suppose!

Really, I don't know what the world is coming to if I am to be suspected of staring in at windows!

When I think of all the pretty and lovely girls who have done their best to attach him, and he tells me that he has offered for an insipid female who has neither fortune nor any extraordinary degree of beauty, besides being stupidly shy and dowdy, I – oh, I could go into strong hysterics!

Sir Nugent knew that Sylvester did not like him, but it never crossed his mind that Sylvester, or anyone else, held him in contempt. If he could have been brought to believe it, he would have known that Sylvester was queer in his attic, and he would have been very much shocked.

Lady Mablethorpe shuddered. 'Is she dreadful?' 'She is an impudent strumpet!' said Mr. Ravenscar coldly.

You must remember that nothing is more wearisome than to be obliged to listen to stories about a set of persons one has never seen.