« All Cannot Quotes · William Hazlitt's Page
Cannot Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work…
- Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which…
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of…
- Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
- I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of…
- A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
- Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon…
- We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on…
- One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
- We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in…
- The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
- There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him…
- There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
- Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for…
- Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable…
- Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
- There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature,…
- The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
- It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance. It is ourselves that we cannot forgive.
More Cannot Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton