William Hazlitt Quotes

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.

I have a natural swagger.

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

Don't confuse confidence with cockiness. I really believe that.

I don't know about you, but I love showing my ass to a crew of 300 that I've been working with.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

You just go on your nerve.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

There is a virtue in shamelessness.