„Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are.“

— Karen Blixen

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„I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.“
— Robert Browning
„If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do.“
— Federico Fellini
„Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."-Elinor Dashwood“
— Jane Austen
„What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle