If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Quote by William Hazlitt

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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they...

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they...

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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...

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the...

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the...

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it...

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it...

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire...

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire...

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than...

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find...

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find...

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton...

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton...

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.