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

Quote by William Hazlitt

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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to...

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to...

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.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing...

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing...

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate...

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate...

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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...

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single...

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single...

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...

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

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.

The more we do, the more we can do.

The more we do, the more we can do.

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we...

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we...

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

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

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

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of...

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of...