William Hazlitt Quotes
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
Quotes to Explore
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Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I grew up on WWE. Eddie Guerrero is my everything. He's my hero, as are Shawn Michaels and Tiger Mask. I tried to model myself after them.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?
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I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
