"As hypocrisy is said to be the highest……" — William Hazlitt
"As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth."
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female…
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There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up…
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True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by…
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After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other…
— William J. Clinton
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And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end…
— Frederic Bastiat
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With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment…
— Antonin Scalia
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The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to…
— Unknown Author
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Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it,…
— Marshall Faulk
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Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the…
— Unknown Author
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There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies,
— Sharon Gless
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You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around…
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