Quote by William Hazlitt
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. - William Hazlitt

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

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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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Curmudgeonesque
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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

Category:
Hope
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Other Quotes from
Food
category

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices. – LWren Scott

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Food

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. – Robert A. Heinlein

Category:
Food

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. – Napoleon Hill

Category:
Food

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when theyre watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting. – Bob Woodward

Category:
Food

Random Quotes

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. – William Hazlitt

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Death

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. – John D. Rockefeller

Category:
good

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. – Lorna Luft

Category:
alone

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Art