William Hazlitt

Quotes

• “The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of ris...”
• “Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a ...”
• “The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly ...”
• “Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the...”
• “Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our hap...”
• “To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of s...”
• “Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupte...”
• “the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!”
• “There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
• “Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”
• “Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
• “The path of genius is free, and its own”