Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

Research Database of Quotes

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V
W
X Y Z

William Hazlitt Quotes

«We never do anything well until we cease to think about the manner of doing it»
«There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it»
«One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Chance, Winning | Keywords: ace, aces, game of chance, vexed
«The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: combating
«Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: objection
«We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: good will
«Whatever interests, is interesting»
«To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us»
«It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Learning, Men | Keywords: argued, knave, to advantage
«His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: pith, postscript, sayings