"Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two……" — William Hazlitt

"Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity."

— 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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Nature abhors a garden. — Michael Pollan
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going… — T. Harv Eker
This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste.… — Leo Buscaglia
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. — Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors annihilation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly… — Gottfried Leibniz
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in… — Khalil Gibran
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. — Joseph Brodsky
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. — Bernard DeVoto
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and… — Albrecht Durer

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