Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Writers always know whether you like them or not.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

If you would judge, understand.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Reasonable people can have differences.

Critics matter to me a lot.

We all judge people.

Even if you see me fighting, don't assume I am a bad person.

Regardless of how I act, somebody is going to criticize me one way or the other.

If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.

Some people say the people I'm fighting are bums, but I don't see it like that.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.