Parliament, _Parliamentum_, is by express appointment the Talking Apparatus; yet not in Parliament either is the essential function, by any means, talk. Not to speak your opinion well, but to have a good and just opinion worth speaking,--for every Parliament, as for every man, this latter is the point. Contrive to have a true opinion, you will get it told in some way, better or worse; and it will be a blessing to all creatures. Have a false opinion, and tell it with the tongue of Angels, what can that profit? The better you tell it, the worse it will be!英文原著 · 《Latter-Day Pamphlets》
One day Joan, lunching at the club, met Madge Singleton. "I've had such a funny letter from Flossie," said Joan, "begging me almost with tears in her ink to come to her on Sunday evening to meet a 'gentleman friend' of hers, as she calls him, and give her my opinion of him. What on earth is she up to?"
"It's all right," answered Madge. "She doesn't really want our opinion of him--or rather she doesn't want our real opinion of him. She only wants us to confirm hers. She's engaged to him."
"Flossie engaged!" Joan seemed surprised. "Yes," answered Madge. "It used to be a custom.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Some say that the three officers, Credence, God's-peace, and Good-hope, were kin, adds our historian, and I, he adds, am of that opinion too. And to back up his opinion he takes an extract out of the Herald's College books which runs thus: 'Romans, fifteenth and thirteenth: Now, the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.' Some say the three officers were of kin, and I am of that opinion too.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
Besides, he gives no cases. What is an opinion without a precedent? A lawyer's guess. I thought so little of his opinion that I sent the case to a clever junior, who has got time to think before he writes." Colls entered soon after with the said junior's opinion. Compton opened it, and saying, "Now let us see what he says," read it to Alfred. It ran thus:
"There was clearly a right of action under the common law and it has been exercised. _Anderdon v. Brothers; Paternoster v.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
There can be no two opinions as to its lack of balance, for the adult is not even considered. There can be no two opinions as to its intellectual and educational values. Buying only "juvenile literature" they are of the smallest. There can be no two opinions as to its morality: the people are taxed, yet only a fraction of the people, only those who have children below the seventh and above the first grades, receive a return.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
Ask Serjeant Roland his opinion of Oliver Q.C. "Ordinaire, my good fellow, ordinaire, with a port-wine label!" Ask Oliver his opinion of Roland. "Never was a man so overrated by the world and by himself." Ask Tweedledumski his opinion of Tweedledeestein's performance. "A quack, my tear sir! an ignoramus, I geef you my vort? He gombose an opera! He is not fit to make dance a bear!" Ask Paddington and Buckminster, those two "swells" of fashion, what they think of each other? They are notorious ordinaire.英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
Your opinion? I don't need your opinion. I didn't ask for it.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
Because I contradicted your opinion after you contradicted my opinion?美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
It's equally obvious that I'm a judge, nd yet you continually refer to me as "Your Honor." All I ask is that you do the same with your opinion, and remind yourself and the court that it is in fact your opinion.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》