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
- Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
- The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- 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.
- Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
- 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.
- 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.
- Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- 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.
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Best Quotes
- The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
- I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.
- Character matters leadership descends from character.
- Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- Man is by nature a political animal.
- I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.
- This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
- One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
- Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!