"We grow tired of everything but turning others……" — William Hazlitt
"We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects."
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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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More Congratulating Quotes
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Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in…
— Julie Burchill
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Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher,…
— Unknown Author
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I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being…
— Tim Waterstone
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To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and…
— Gore Vidal
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Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you…
— Neville Goddard
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Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey…
— Bruce Babbitt
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Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met…
— Ian Mckellen
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It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys.…
— Betty White
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We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.
— Sloane Crosley
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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over…
— William Stafford
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Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with…
— Dave Eggers
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