William Hazlitt Quotes
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
William Hazlitt
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
Zendaya
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
Kangana Ranaut
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac D'Israeli
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
A. S. Byatt
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.
William Golding
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There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
William Ellery Channing
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
William Hazlitt
