Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Commitment Quotes

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with...

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with...

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...

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like...

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like...

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not...

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not...

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements....

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements....

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns...

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security...

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security...

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the...

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the...

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would...

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would...

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not...

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not...

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does...

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does...

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a...

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a...

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.