Quote

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

William Hazlitt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
Writer
Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Familiarity
May
Idols
Admiration
Contempt
Edge
Edges
Aeroplanes
Takes
Breed
Though

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
William Hazlitt
Image
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt
Image
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
Image
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
William Hazlitt
Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
William Hazlitt
Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
William Hazlitt
Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
William Hazlitt
Image
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt
Image
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
William Hazlitt
Image
Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt
Image
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.
William Hazlitt
Image
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt
Image
Good temper is an estate for life.
William Hazlitt
Image
Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
William Hazlitt
Image
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
William Hazlitt
Image
He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
William Hazlitt