Judging Quotes

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

You can’t judge people by their cover.

Europe and America should judge Georgia’s leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

The judge is nothing but the law speaking.

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn’t read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.