William Hazlitt Quotes

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

William Hazlitt

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• I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Like
  • Never
  • Cold

• As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• I enjoy my life.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • My Life

• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
  • World
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Enough
  • Happen

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Me
  • Human
  • Passions

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Crazy
  • Said

• If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fail
  • Chemistry
  • Were

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Proud

• I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • World
  • Movie
  • Night

• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Road
  • Gold
  • Greatest

• Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• Basically you’ve got to be yourself, and just three or four percent larger than life, that is it. That is my belief. That is if you have it, if you are successful. If you go a little over the top, then you are arrogant and pompous.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Successful

• We're like a really nice drink. We help people get through the day-we make life a little sunnier. I don't think we have any profound effect. If anybody has had a profound effect, it's The Beatles, and their effect is still minimal. There are things in the world way more important than music. Family is 50 times more important than music.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • Words
  • Find

• There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Money
  • Mercy
  • Bank

• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Mercy