William Hazlitt Quotes

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

William Hazlitt

• Honesty
• Eloquence
• Earnest

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• I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Good
  • Honesty
  • Cost

• Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

  

  K. Flay
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Real

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Think
  • Same
  • Honesty

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Remember
  • Fight
  • Honesty

• All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Never
  • Actor
  • Honesty

• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Money
  • Friends

• Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • True
  • Thought
  • Honesty

• My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Respect

• My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Change
  • Honesty
  • Efficiency

• I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Poetry
  • Honesty
  • Modern

• I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Song
  • Fight
  • Honesty

• If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Crazy
  • Romantic

• Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Nature
  • Hiking

• I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.

  

  William Weld
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Pain

• We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Animals

• Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Honesty
  • Eloquence
  • Earnest