William Hazlitt Quotes

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

William Hazlitt

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• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Screwed

• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Think

• We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • World
  • Work
  • Improvement

• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • America
  • Today
  • Strong

• I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Important
  • Remember

• I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

  

  Darrell Hammond
  • Money
  • Bad

• Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Music
  • Lying
  • Bed

• [On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Country
  • Returning
  • Belonged

• I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Long
  • War

• The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • War
  • Running

• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Men
  • Blow

• When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

  

  William C. Brown
  • Spiritual
  • Criticism
  • Research

• I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because that's someone else's vision. If they don't see me as that part, even if I believe I'm the perfect person for it, that's their vision. The music is my vision.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Perfect

• If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt. It's not right for the state to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made. They cannot hold me to both standards.

  

  Andrea Jones
  • Choice
  • Standards
  • MAle

• The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Painter
  • Scholar