I want to be judged on my own merits.
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
We pass judgements as to merits in areas we have no competence
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
Merit should count more than academic background.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!
I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
