Capricious Quote by William Hazlitt Download Open image “Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.” — William Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capricious Opinion Public opinion Unjust
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks — Anonymous 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… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image