"Those who object to wit are envious of…" — William Hazlitt
"Those who object to wit are envious of it."
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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 Envious Quotes
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I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt…
— Sandra Bullock
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England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished…
— John Cleese
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
— Antisthenes
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One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has…
— Imagawa Sadayo
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
— Horace
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
— Pindar
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This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution…
— Winston Churchill
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A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act…
— Thomas Nagel
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all…
— William James
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have…
— Oscar Wilde
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