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Letter "W" » William Hazlitt Quotes
«A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim --objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them. . .»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Silence is the one great art of conversation.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a great-aunt or uncle, whose existence he has scarcely heard of.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«At the outset of life . . . our imagination has a body to it.»
«To-day gold, to-morrow dust.»
«What a sight for sore eyes that would be!»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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