#ten

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dr #however #johnson #lazy #learned

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#before #book #hundred #i #intents

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

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#believed #get #had #i #i always

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny. ↗

— Lena Headey

#charming #comedy #directed #ensemble #funny

The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#forgotten #know #recently #son #until

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#became #big #climb #closer #deliberate

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#both #english #english literature #extraordinary #fiction

You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#back #called #car #cars #everyone