Josh Billings Quotes

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

I don't understand that if you look wonderful, does that make you less important, less powerful, less serious?

For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

When you're talking about people's clothes, you're also talking about their bodies. That opens up some kind of vulnerability.

Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

I think we're all guilty of judging, and I look a certain way - I wear a lot of make-up and fake tan.

Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

I'm fascinated by people's obsession with how they look and how humans really do judge you within the first few seconds of meeting you.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot.