"A nickname is the hardest stone that the……" — William Hazlitt

"A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man."

— William Hazlitt

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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. — Teresa of Avila
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. — Josephine Baker
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou
A church debt is the devil's salary. — Henry Ward Beecher
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The… — Ezra Taft Benson
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an… — Ezra Taft Benson
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his… — Ambrose Bierce

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