Elinor Wylie Quotes

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

No one is innocent, and people are allowed to criticize everyone.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

judge not that ye be not judged

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

Innocence is its own defense.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!