Fine Quote by William Hazlitt Download Open image “If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.” — William Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fine Speculation World
The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is. — Jeff Kober Copy Share Image
There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. — George Earle Buckle Copy Share Image
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
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 or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
