Samuel Johnson Quotes

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

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

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

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.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

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

I don't go down the road of condemning.

It's easier at times to pick at what someone else does.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

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

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.