Nick Hornby Quotes

judge not that ye be not judged

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

They judge lest they be judged.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

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

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

As in the infirmity of human nature, no man's actions are always what he likes to look back upon, as there are points in which he would wish that he had acted otherwise; so every man who tells his own story is under a temptation more or less to disguise the truth; and the more in proportion as his actions have been upon a larger scale, and his faults or mistakes therefore have been more flagrant.

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

For those of us on this planet who have never done wrong and are always right and are just down right 100% perfect all the time, life can be hard.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done…Who has ever maintained that by judging a wrong I presuppose that I myself would be incapable of committing it?