Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
- People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
- Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
- There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
- The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- 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.
- Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
- Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Best Quotes
- The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
- I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
- Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
- Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
- The giving of love is an education in itself.