Francis Quarles Quotes

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.

I have no faith in my ability to judge things.

History is a stern judge.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

Never judge a cover by its book.