Quote by Helen Garner Download Open image ““judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.”” — Helen Garner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you… — David Dudley Field II Copy Share Image
“Inasmuch as every judge some day ends up as a penitent, one had to travel the road in the opposite direction and practice the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When One judges another, they unconsciously allow themselves to be judged.” — Steven Farmer Copy Share Image
“Enter their minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of—and how judiciously they judge themselves.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“But I’ve been reading A Very Easy Death, about Simone de Beauvoir’s mother dying of cancer – it’s just brilliant. It really helped me.’… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“The two big cities of Australia are tonally as distinct from each other as Boston is from L.A. or Lyon from Marseilles.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“I realised I had a stream of thoughts about him which ran for the most part below conscious level. I noticed jets spurting up… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image