Censorious Quotes

#1. RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

Saki

#3. Before you say anything censorious about anyone, ask yourself three questions: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If the answer to any one of these is even a qualified no, you'd best be quiet." And she remembered it. Miss

Helen Epstein

#4. IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. The most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

Ellin Devis

#6. Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#7. The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Rebecca West

#8. You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils
censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic
the women in Scotland have twice
thrice their freedom, with all their virtue
and are very conversable and agreeable
their educations are more finished.

Fanny Burney

#9. Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Michael Walzer

#10. Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.

Joshua Cohen

#11. I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

Nick Clegg

#12. While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself.

Elias Lyman Magoon

#13. Ruth tells me at least once a day that old people, or people getting old, tend to disengage, back away, turn inward, listen only to themselves, and get self-righteous and censorious. And they mustn't. (I mustn't.)

Wallace Stegner

#14. The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

Ann Coulter

#15. Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Thomas Sprat

#16. See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#17. I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Anita Brookner

#18. One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

J.I. Packer

#19. Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

Edwin A. Abbott

#20. Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.

John Muir

#21. Allow motion to equal emotion.

Elbert Hubbard

#22. Human love is emotional. Feelings dominate a human's love landscape. We feel as though we're in love, or we don't feel as though we're in love. Hormones, sleeplessness, wory, past hurts, Mexican food
all complicate these emotions.

Max Lucado

#23. There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

Bruce R. McConkie

#24. When it comes to getting promoted, you want to present yourself in a way that feeds into the biases that bosses have about what makes someone promotable. You're already doing the hard work, so why not frame your effort in such a way that it increases your chances of obtaining the position you want?

Travis Bradberry

#25. Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

Samuel Beckett