A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
- It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
- The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
Best Quotes
- Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
- A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
- Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
- War and Peace never stay at a moment.
- But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?