#Judgment Quotes

“I that please some, try all, both joy and terrorOf good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.”

“Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.”

“All hoods make not monks.”

“A woman impudent and mannish grownIs not more loath'd than an effeminate man.”

“What is thy sentence then but speechless death.”

“Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.”

“My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.”

“Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:His faults lie open to the laws; let them,Not you, correct him.”

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

“A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .”

“O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!”

“Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.”

“His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.”

“To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.”

“Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.”

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“Gently to hear, kindly to judge.”

“Our very eyesAre sometimes, like our judgments, blind.”

“I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?”

“Let the end try the man.”

“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”

“Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.”

“Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)”

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”

“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”

“Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.”

“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.”

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.”

“Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.”

“For by his face straight shall you know his heart.”

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.”

“The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.”

“Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.”

“What is aught but as 'tis valued?”

“the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.”

“Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.”

“There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.”

“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!”

“Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scanThe outward habit by the inward man.”

“If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.”

“What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.”

“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”

“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.”

“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.”

“I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.”

“But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.”

“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”

“Always scorn appearances and you always may.”

“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.”