William Hazlitt Quotes

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

William Hazlitt

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • Friendship
  • Anger

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friendship
  • Two
  • Pity

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Alone

• I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Great
  • Relationship

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Society
  • Friendship

• I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Interest

• In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Different
  • Important

• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Job
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Friendship
  • Depend
  • Depth

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Ideas
  • Interest
  • Groups

• Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).

  

  Ben Clymer
  • Interest
  • Imagine
  • Believe In

• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Everyday

• I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother is 90 percent blind and deaf. She left and moved all the way to California. So I left my two older sisters and my father behind at the age of eleven and moved cross-country to take care of her.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Country
  • She
  • Mother

• Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Health
  • Accomplishment

• Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Friendship
  • Interest
  • Esteem