Quote #24100
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with...
Category Archives: William Hazlitt
Quote #24095
Those who can command themselves command others.
Quote #24096
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were...
Quote #24097
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare....
Quote #24098
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost,...
Quote #24099
Man is a make-believe animal – he is never so truly himself as when...
Quote #24084
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps...
Quote #24085
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We...
Quote #24086
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress — for no particular...
Quote #24087
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little...