Quotes About Judgment

Some of the greatest criminals I have known had the faces of angels.

All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.

Nobody over fifty has got any sense.

Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.

A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.

I must say that ever since I have been unable to stop myself applying this criterion to any male stranger. Good-looking, perhaps–but are his legs common?

It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so.

It was so hard to get an idea of people you had never seen. You had to rely on other people's judgment. ... Other people's impressions were no good to you. They might be just as true as yours but you couldn't act on them. You couldn't, as it were, use another person's angle of attack.

About Miss Debenham," he said rather awkwardly. "You can take it from me that she's all right. She's a pukka sahib. "What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?" "It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot was." "Oh!" said Dr. Constantine, disappointed. "Then it has nothing to do with the crime at all." "Exactly," said Poirot.

The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portugese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson.

One must always proceed with method. I made an error of judgment asking you that question. Toeach man his own knowledge. You could tell me the details of the patient's physical appearance- nothing there would escape you. If I wanted information about the papers on the desk, Mr. Raymond would have noticed anything there was to see. To find out about the fire, I must ask the man whose business is to observe such things. - Detective Hercule Poirot to Doctor Sheppard

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

Watch and pray," he said. "Watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand.

Marriage is an extraordinary thing—and I doubt if any outsider—even a child of the marriage—has the right to judge.

The judge murmured with a reptilian smile:

In my day if a man was mad he was mad and we didn't look about for scientific terms to soften it down.

If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face

He had false teeth that clicked when he ate. Many men have been hated for less.

The moral character of the victim has nothing to do with it! A human being who has exercised the right of private judgment and taken the life of another human being is not safe to exist amongst the community.

It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top.

Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.