William Hazlitt Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Men, Way

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.143

• A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Ideas, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics

• ...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Dignity, Shrinks

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1107, Delphi Classics

• A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Men, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

• No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Dignity

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

• Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Gentleman, Noblemen

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”

• The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

  William Hazlitt

  Dignity, Fortune, Reverse

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “The life of Napoleon Buonaparte”

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