Quote

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

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
Known
Breach
Things
Breakup
Engagement
Intimacy
Engagements
Tend
Alienate
Friendship
Punctual
Promise
Punctuality
Break
Dine

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
William Hazlitt
Image
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
William Hazlitt
Image
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
William Hazlitt
Image
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
William Hazlitt
Image
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
William Hazlitt
Image
We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
William Hazlitt
Image
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
Image
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
Image
Experience makes us wise.
William Hazlitt
Image
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
William Hazlitt
Image
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
William Hazlitt
Image
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
Image
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
William Hazlitt
Image
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
William Hazlitt
Image
Reflection makes men cowards.
William Hazlitt
Image
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
William Hazlitt
Image
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt