Top 96 Judge A Book Quotes
#1. I feel like you can't judge a book by its cover, that's always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world.
Andre Hueston Mack
#3. You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!
David Bischoff
#5. Don't judge a book by its cover. Mom is always saying that, but most of the time, I think that's exactly what people are asking us to do: Please. Judge me by my cover. Judge me by exactly what I've worked so hard to show you.
Aaron Hartzler
#6. People still judge a book by its cover, Avery. And your story? It's beautiful. You're beautiful. But I'm nothing but a ripped out page, graffiti where some should never be. Don't taint your story with me.
J.M. Darhower
#7. You cannot judge a book by its contents.
Jon Stewart
#10. Never judge a book by the cover, you may miss out on what could be your favorite book
Sharon Watkins
#12. No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
#13. I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
Adam Lambert
#14. It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
James Russell Lowell
#16. When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
Jean De La Bruyere
#17. You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill.
Gunplay
#18. I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
Zac Goldsmith
#19. Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.
Mary Higgins Clark
#20. They say you can't judge a book by its cover. I've learned that you can't judge a man by the one before him, either.
Adriana Locke
#21. never judge a book by its cover,whats in it is a way of life.
Maceo Mays
#22. If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
E.A. Bucchianeri
#23. Never judge a book by it's cover.
Anonymous
#24. Never judge a book by it's cover, the cover is great but the words are even greater.
Ms. Venom
#25. We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.
Elton John
#26. It may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover," Daisy G. had told Blister just last summer. "But the cover tells you something about the book and don't ever pretend it doesn't.
Susan Richards Shreve
#27. Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.
B.B. Free
#28. Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.
Shannon Hale
#29. Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.
Steven Tyler
#30. Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#31. You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?
Cao Cao
#32. You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
Jayce O'Neal
#33. I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?
Stephen Colbert
#34. We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
Axl Rose
#36. Don't judge a book by its thickness either.
Craig Bruce
#37. remember the old adage "You can't judge a book by its cover"? I'm here to tell you that's complete bullshit
Tim Castleman
#38. Haven't you learned you should never judge a book by its cover? There is a lot of assumptions you've made based on appearance.
S.J.D. Peterson
#39. If you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.
Benjamin Franklin
#40. Never judge a book by its cover, its contents may have the inspiration one needed for progression
L. Neal
#41. Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else.
Edwin Rolfe And Lester Fuller
#42. The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.
Jay Ryan
#43. Never judge a book by its cover like never judge or underestimate a person on the outside." -
Kate
Kate
#44. I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
Ozzy Osbourne
#45. (Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen.
Cindy Woodsmall
#47. Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#48. I see that you're observant. You point out that I'm a Goth, I don't talk, and I have a twisted mind when it comes to writing. But, you guessed wrong when you said that I'm a devil worshiper. And I responded to you with a punch in the nose and said,"Don't fucking judge a book by it's cover!
Onyx
#49. Never judge a book by its cover or a movie.
Anonymous
#50. You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.
Lauren Oliver
#51. It is certainly true that you can't judge a book by its cover, nor can you judge a book by its first chapter - even if that chapter is twenty years long.
Gregory Boyle
#52. Never judge a book by its cover, be the judge of what's inside. . .
Pearl
#53. The same way we don't judge a book by its cover, we shouldn't judge people by their looks.
Eva Garcia
#54. My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.
Stewart Lee
#55. You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.
Action Bronson
#57. What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell
#59. Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.
Ashwin Sanghi
#60. Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.
Simon Garfield
#61. People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#62. Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert
#63. Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#65. At this point the judge took over the questioning. "Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi?" he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? "It is a history book, isn't it?" asked the judge.
James W. Loewen
#66. They judge me like a picture book,
For the colours like they forgot to read
Lana Del Rey
#67. Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#68. He could judge with reasonable accuracy the amount of use a book had had. The first item to show any sign of wear was the dust jacket at the top and bottom of the spine. Little tears or cracks in the paper appeared here if a book had been taken off a shelf as much as three or four times.
Leonard Holton
#69. It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality.
Anthony Burgess
#70. Don't judge my brother; he is not a book.
Melanie
#71. I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.
Joyce Carol Oates
#72. If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote.
Toba Beta
#74. I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book. So relax, read it, and if you don't enjoy it, remember that you're saving money.
George Burns
#75. Never judge someone
By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it's covered;
For inside those tattered pages,
There's a lot to be discovered
Stephen Cosgrove
#77. Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.
Dolly Parton
#78. If you judge me negatively, as you would a book by it's cover, you'd be surprised by what you see written on the pages inside
Rick Ferreira
#79. The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it.
A fool's mind judges a book by its title.
Ellen J. Barrier
#80. To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
Joanna Lumley
#82. [On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
Bernice Rubens
#83. 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
James Frain
#84. Ray Bradbury's definition of a book is at the end, when he points out that we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.) - Neil
Ray Bradbury
#85. The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.
James K. Morrow
#86. You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter.
Trevor Rabin
#87. They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.
Lana Del Rey
#88. Never judge the others
for each one wears a cover
for their version of the original.
(talking about individuals in the stream of consciousness that gives rise to each one of us.)
Jay Woodman
#89. You can judge a man by the books in his library.
Mark Skousen
#90. All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned
Kurt Cobain
#91. On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.
Bill Watterson
#92. I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.
Richard Price
#94. I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.
Elmore Leonard
#95. We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
