An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
- Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
- A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
- We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Best Quotes
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
- I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
- If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
- Abused patience turns to fury.
- God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.