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Impression Quotes by William Hazlitt
- To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions…
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- 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…
- He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on the mind by…
More Impression Quotes
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera
- If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be… — Brigitte Bardot
- Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. — William Bernbach
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me… — Ezra Taft Benson
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly… — Charlotte Bronte
- Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns
- It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's… — Alan Alda
- Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. — Jeb Bush
- If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my… — Jim Carrey