Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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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.
- It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- 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.
- Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- 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.
- A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Best Quotes
- My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
- When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
- Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
- In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
- I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
- To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
- Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.