Quotes About Judgment

On my way home, I ran into Miss Hartnell and she detained me at least ten minutes, declaiming in her deep bass voice against the improvidence and ungratefulness of the lower classes. The crux of the matter seemed to be that The Poor did not want Miss Hartnell in their houses. My sympathies were entirely on their side.

From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.

Married a man who wasn't much good. I'd say she never had much judgment when it came to men. Some women haven't. They fall for anyone who tells them a hard-luck story. Always convinced that all the man needs is proper female understanding. That, once married to her, he'll pull up his socks and make a go of life! But of course that type of man never does.

You really have the best opinion of yourself of anyone I ever knew!' I cried, divided between amusement and annoyance.

She looked, I decided this morning, much more like a horse than a human being. In fact she would have been a very nice horse with a little grooming.

Wargrave murdered Edward Seton all right, murdered him as surely as if he'd stuck a stiletto through him! But he was clever enough to do it from the judge's seat in wig and gown. So in the ordinary way you can't bring his little crime home to him.

Sommige van de grootste misdadigers die ik heb gekend hadden engelengezichten,' sprak Poirot opgewekt. 'Een misvorming van de grijze cellen kan heel goed samengaan met het gezicht van een madonna.

Miss Marple is not the type of elderly lady who makes mistakes. She has got an uncanny knack of being always right.

Guy Carpenter frowned and came into the drawing room through the window. He had a long face like a horse, he was pale and looked rather supercilious. His manner was pompous. Hercule Poirot found him unattractive.

From a recumbent position he looked up at Mr Blore and said with immense dignity: 'I'm talking to you, young man. The day of judgment is very close at hand.' Subsiding on to his seat Mr Blore thought to himself: He's nearer the day of judgment than I am! But there, as it happens, he was wrong…

If you will forgive me for being personal—I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

No greater mistake than to think that because a man's tied by the leg it affects his brain pan. Not a bit of it.

that. Be sure thy sin will find thee out.' Vera scrambled to her feet. She said: 'But, Miss Brent—Miss Brent—in that case—' 'Yes, my dear?

She's just the type—sexually unattractive, innately respectable. In my book, The Barren Vine—" Colonel Race interrupted tactfully:

it is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends." "You suggest that their faults are more important than their virtues?" said Mr. Carey. His tone was dry and ironic. "Undoubtedly—when it comes to murder.

Ferguson was difficult. He sprawled insolently in a chair. "Grand to-do about this business!" he sneered. "What's it really matter? Lots of superfluous women in the world!

The only thing I can't make up my mind about is whether it is an insult or a compliment to be considered a potential murderess. On the whole, I think it's a compliment.

Miss Gannett has all the characteristics of my sister Caroline, but she lacks that unerring aim in jumping to conclusions which lends a touch of greatness to Caroline's manoeuvres.

There's a general belief that athletes aren't overburdened by brains (not at all true by the way), but I can't believe Nevile Strange is a complete moron.

Mladi ljudi pripadaju svojoj generaciji. Možemo mi misliti da mnogi njihovi potezi nisu mudri, ali moramo prihvatiti njihove odluke.

A co jest nie tak z moj? propozycj?? (...) - Prosz? wybaczy? t? osobist? uwag?: nie podoba mi si? pa?ska twarz (...)

Quite nice-looking in a kind of way, but rather as though she might have what my mother used to call "a touch of the tar-brush.

The wise man does not commit himself. Is not that so?

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.