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Public Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
- A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
- The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of…
- The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the…
- There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it…
- What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to…
- The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices,…
- The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest…
- That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who…
- The public have neither shame or gratitude.
- I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own…
- There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it…
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- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
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