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

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt

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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. – William Hazlitt

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What you often see in a lesser work of art is a subject captured perfectly and never set free. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. – A. Bartlett Giamatti

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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. – Catherine the Great

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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities. – Clay Aiken

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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. – James Madison

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