"Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public…" — William Hazlitt
"Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion."
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William Hazlitt
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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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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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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out…
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More Capricious Quotes
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one of 76 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
— Richard Dawkins
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
— Edward Gibbon
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Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
— John Cheever
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his…
— Gerald Heaney
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how…
— Walter Bagehot
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an…
— William Hurt
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way…
— Nick Harkaway
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Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid,…
— Richard Bach
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