Sunday afternoon Quote by Virginia Woolf

“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our…

— Anaïs Nin

“But then it was Thomas More who reminded us that when you don these robes you must be willing to make decisions that will…

— Jeffrey Archer

“It's how the English run their courts. They sacrifice innocents, thinking to keep evil at bay, and call it a kind of justice. But…

— Kathleen Kent

“I have come upon the conviction that it is not the stern voice of a priest delivering the threat of brimstone, but the gentle…

— Hannah Kent

“see, now, that it was wrong for me to curse your particular blood to a diseased eternity of suffering. In an attempt at magnanimity…

— Joseph Fink

“We, all of us, must be left alone to make good on our own consciences. And no county magistrate or judge or deacon can…

— Kathleen Kent

“I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but…

— A.F. Stewart

“From which it follows that neither praise nor blame nor honours nor punishments are fair”.”

— Derk Pereboom

“But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.”

— Aristotle

“The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the man whose…

— Charles Dickens

“Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne