Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Friendship Quotes

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere...

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere...

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It...

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It...

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires...

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires...

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my...

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my...

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never...

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never...

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is...

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is...

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is...

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is...

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great...

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great...

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my...

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my...

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of...

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of...

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The course of true love never did run smooth.