William Shakespeare Quotes About Judging

• Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Long, Judging

  1603-4 Iago. Othello, act1, sc.1, l.60-5.

• Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Judging, Heaven

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 99

• Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Hypocrisy, Sinner

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 3, sc. 3, l. 31

• With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Judging, Impossible

• Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Judging

• Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Judging, Causes

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.498

• Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sky, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.333, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Father, Eye

• For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Cutting, Judging

  William Shakespeare, William Oxberry, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Owen Fawcett (1822). “Julius Caesar: A Tragedy”, p.55

• Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Thieves, Stealing

  1603 Angelo. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.181-2.

• To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Judging, Office

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.70

• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

• Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Charity

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.277

• There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Mercy, Fetters

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.84

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