Judgment Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet…

— E.D. Baker

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Let not your tongue mention the shame of another, for you yourself are covered in shame and all men have tongues.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

— Voltaire

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

— Sue Grafton

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

— William Shakespeare

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a…

— Plutarch

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

— William Shakespeare

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

— Lin Yutang

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

— Richard Steele