Social Opinion Quotes

Sir Wiggo sounds nice.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

Public opinion in this country is everything.

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

I'm a dad now, so now I just don't care what I look like. Once you've created life, you just don't care what anyone thinks.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.

I don't know how you determine exactly what the American people approve of.

I don't care if people think I'm boring.

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like it!

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.