William Hazlitt Quotes

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

William Hazlitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

Topics

HopePeopleSelfOthersNeighbors

There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know? You have a job to do, so you do that job of singing that song or telling that story because that's what you're doing.

Jimmy Scott

JobSingingWorldSongStoryDoing

Depending on who it is, but I can't stand men who brag about themselves, and all they do all day is talk about themselves.

Joanna Krupa

DayMenStandTalkWhoThemselves

I love Disney.

Michael Arden

LoveDisneyI Love

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

John Shadegg

HomeKeyIntentionImmigrantsBecome

When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world.

Simon Cowell

BestWorldYouFeelingFirstPay

Pink is the navy blue of India.

Diana Vreeland

BluePinkIndiaNavy

One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.

Chris Gardner

BusinessTimeDaysConferenceGoing

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Christopher Hitchens

FaithSciencePeopleResearchWhite

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Colin Angle

IntelligenceCoolSocietyInteresting

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Wole Soyinka

ValueAmazingSurviveYouHuman

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Thomas Sowell

TomorrowWeatherFoundationYouWhy

Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are no viable alternatives to the use of force.

Richard N. Haass

ThinkNationForceWhereNecessity

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