Arthur Baer Quotes

People really give you a hard time when you wear fake glasses out to a bar.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

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.

When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

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.

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

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!

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

People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

I must dress in costly materials. People scrutinize every article I wear with critical curiosity. The very fact of having grown up in the West, subjects me to more searching observation.

It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?

When will we regard human beings as human beings? Why do we discuss someone's appearance? And when we can't find faults in appearances, we start targeting their personalities. Why do we consider others beneath us?

I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.

You judge someone from the day you meet them.