"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than……" — William Hazlitt
"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."
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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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If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well,…
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If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law…
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A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance…
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Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate…
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they…
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The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and…
— Israel Albert Horowitz
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I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted. I think if you alienate people and just focus on…
— Julianne Hough
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I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate…
— James Madison
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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second:…
— Tony Blair
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But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and…
— Unknown Author
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Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to…
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