Quotes by Hazlitt, William

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We canno >>

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business >>

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who can >>

Quotations about Comedy and Comedians

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. >>

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only li >>

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the co >>

Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

Hazlitt, William