"To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment……" — William Hazlitt
"To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity."
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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 Disappointment Quotes
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
— Tom Baker
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I…
— Christian Bale
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
— Joseph Addison
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
— Michael Bergin
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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