Quotes about Judgment

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

your uncle Howard is one of the most harmless of men—much nicer than most professional people. Of course he does dreadful things as a judge; but then if you take a man and pay him 5,000 pounds a year to be wicked, and praise him for it, and have policemen and courts and laws and juries to drive him into it so that he can't help doing it, what can you expect?

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to.

there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.

People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.

He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James. No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parenthesis, said Mrs. Cadwallader.