Logo
Quote by William Hazlitt
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Travel
Author
William Hazlitt
Read Quote

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Wisdom
Author
William Hazlitt
Read Quote

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Ridicule
Author
William Hazlitt
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Imagination
category

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in ones own imagination. – Dennis Potter

Category:
Imagination

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
Imagination

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. – Simon Pegg

Category:
Imagination

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that its real. – Joel Kinnaman

Category:
Imagination

Random Quotes

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Time

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. – Henry Miller

Category:
alone

There is no road or ready way to virtue. – Sir Thomas Browne

Category:
Virtue

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting. – Jack Markell

Category:
Sports