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

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Prejudice Quotes

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

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

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force...

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force...

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...

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to...

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to...

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to...

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to...

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...

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every...

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every...

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may...

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may...

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.