"There is no flattery so adroit or effectual……" — William Hazlitt
"There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent."
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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 Adroit Quotes
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be…
— Martin Luther
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A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such…
— Chuck Klosterman
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To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be…
— Aleister Crowley
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Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with…
— Marquis de Sade
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