Quote by William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. - William Hazlitt

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. – William Hazlitt

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Education
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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

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Hope
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! – William Hazlitt

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Friendship
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. – John Ruskin

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Art

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! – David Herbert Lawrence

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Art

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but Ive just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that its not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. – Sylvester Stallone

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Art

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

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Art

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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy

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What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed — and not for pay? Absurd — or insincere? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Goodness

The unicorn stands alone, still as frost. It keeps watch down the corridors of time. The past and the future meet in the presence of the unicorn; the darkness and light become one. Patient as a candle flame, inviolate, here is our guardian, keeper of the silent unknown. – Josephine Bradley, c.1980

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Unicorns

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. – Dennis Gabor

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