judge - quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799

was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Victor (Marie) Hugo, 1802-1885

was a French dramatist, novelist, and poet

Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels.

( “Les Misérables”, 1862 )

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

( “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, 1891 )

H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken, 1880-1956

was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

( attributed )