Jean Cocteau Quotes

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

No one wants to be at the wrong end of finger-pointing.

it’s very easy to blame people.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

If someone's a flake, I help them dig their own hole. I let the audience be the judge. And believe me, they are.

There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.