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William Hazlitt Quotes

«A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.»
«Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.»
«We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim --objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them. . .»
«The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.»
«Silence is the one great art of conversation.»
«Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.»
«A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a great-aunt or uncle, whose existence he has scarcely heard of.»
«At the outset of life . . . our imagination has a body to it.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: outset
«To-day gold, to-morrow dust.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: gold dust
«What a sight for sore eyes that would be!»