"We are never so much disposed to quarrel……" — William Hazlitt
"We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves."
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William Hazlitt
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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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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has…
— Joseph Addison
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
— Daniel Boone
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear…
— Bill Bryson
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Liars are always most disposed to swear.
— Vittorio Alfieri
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None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us…
— Ernest Renan
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
— David Brainerd
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
— Charles Lamb
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A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding…
— Thomas Aquinas
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the…
— Ignatius Loyola
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Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase…
— Vladimir Lenin
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