Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

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

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments, and you are throwing those judgments on other people. And this game has become out of proportion. The whole humanity is suffering from it. If you want to get out of it, the first thing is: Don't judge yourself.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.