William Hazlitt on Friendship
Browse 9 quotations attributed to William Hazlitt, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
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Attributed to William Hazlitt, entry #91199: "Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."
Attributed to William Hazlitt, entry #63104: "It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world."
9 Quotes by William Hazlitt on Friendship
"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."
"It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world."
"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"
"No really great man ever thought himself so."
"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."
"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."
"Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke."
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
"He changes his opinions as he does his friends, and much on the same account. He has no comfort in fixed principles; as soon as anything is settled in his own mind, he quarrels with it. He has no satisfaction but the chase after truth, runs a question down, worries and kills it, then quits it like a vermin, and starts some new game, to lead him a new dance, and give him a fresh breathing through bog and brake, with the rabble yelping at his heels and the leaders perpetually at fault."