Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

English writer

Lived from: 1778 - 1830

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 10 april 1778 Died: 18 september 1830

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  • Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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  • Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
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  • General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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  • Good temper is an estate for life.
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  • Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
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  • Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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  • Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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  • Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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  • Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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  • He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
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  • His worst is better than any other person's best.
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  • Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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  • I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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  • I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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  • I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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  • If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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  • If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
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  • If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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  • If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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  • If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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