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
- To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
- The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
- Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
- A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
- 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!
- The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- 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!
- Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.