There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
- It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
- The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
- 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.
- Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
- The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
- We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
- Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
- A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
- You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
- Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.