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
- 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.
- If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
- There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
- Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
- Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Best Quotes
- I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.
- Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
- There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
- A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
- Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.
- In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.