The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- 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 is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
- Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- 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.
- Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
- To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
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- A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
- Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
- Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.