Quote #12221
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test...
Category Archives: William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Quote #12223
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
Quote #12224
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but...
Quote #12225
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing...
Quote #12227
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as...
Quote #12228
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
Quote #12229
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
Quote #12230
…greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
Quote #12220
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man...