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
- 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.
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
- The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
Best Quotes
- Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.
- Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
- My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.
- There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
- I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
- I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
- People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
- The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
- You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
- Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.