Famous quotes by Critics

"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Dandyism is a variety of genius"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"To a superior race of being, the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars, the scholar of nature"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Grace in women has more effect than beauty"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Those who can command themselves, command others"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The most learned are often the most narrow minded"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can, part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor"

John Churton Collins, Critic

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