"People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing……" — William Hazlitt

"People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake."

— 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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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense… — Karen Armstrong
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you… — Margaret Atwood
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased… — Spencer Bachus
'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd… — Glenn Beck
A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. — Jeff Bezos
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. — Ambrose Bierce
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. — George W. Bush
I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them… — Kirstie Alley
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. — Jean Cocteau
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become… — Thomas Aquinas
I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your… — Davina McCall

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