William Hazlitt Quotes

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

William Hazlitt

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• Tel Aviv appeals to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Me
  • Appeals
  • Tel Aviv

• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Natural
  • Old
  • Admiration

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Heart
  • Driven
  • Pure

• I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Books
  • Fact

• I am not driven.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Driven

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• I'm not driven by being understood.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Being
  • Understood
  • Driven

• I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Mom
  • Woman
  • Artist

• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • Mean
  • Soldier
  • Admiration

• I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Path
  • Successful

• Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • America
  • Proud

• I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You've got to have something else to go with that.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Life
  • Want

• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Success
  • Control
  • Cold

• Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Appeals
  • Passive
  • Maverick

• I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Great
  • Money
  • Crazy

• The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....

  

  Allen Tate
  • Dark
  • Driven
  • Dusk

• There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Great
  • Feeling

• At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistance Recognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning – filled with admiration inspired by beauty – to find the continuation.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Trying
  • English
  • Greek

• Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Example
  • Confusing
  • Good Advice

• It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

  

  Isabel Wilkerson
  • Save
  • Lived
  • Geography

• Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Driven
  • Admiration
  • Appeals