Quote by William Hazlitt
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. - Wi

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt

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A promise made is a debt unpaid. – Robert Service

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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. – Edgar Watson Howe

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolò Machiavelli

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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. – Thomas Fuller

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