There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Ungrateful Quotes

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence...

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has...

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has...

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain...

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain...

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest...

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest...

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

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

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit...

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit...

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...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be....

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be....

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal...

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal...

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as...

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as...

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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

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

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one...

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one...