William Hazlitt Quotes

• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

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• Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

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• If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

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• That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

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• Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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• It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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• The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

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  We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.

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• No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

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• Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretences to both.

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• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

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• People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

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• Dandyism is a variety of genius.

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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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• Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

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• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

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• Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

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• The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

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• To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

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• There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

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William Hazlitt (154)

Birth:	10th April, 1778
Death:	18th September, 1830
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Painter, Philosopher, Writer

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