"One shining quality lends a lustre to another,……" — William Hazlitt
"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."
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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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More Defect Quotes
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one of 148 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
— Chaz Bono
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
— Roberto Cavalli
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
— John Jay Chapman
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
— Rumi
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure;…
— Mark Twain
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