William Hazlitt quote: A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the ...

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

~ William Hazlitt ~

Photo by Bri Schneiter

Photo by Pixabay

Photo by Ákos Szabó

Photo by Ian Turnell

Photo by Pixabay

Photo by Lisa from Pexels

Photo by Pixabay

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imaginati...

Picture of William Hazlitt — William Hazlitt

man
believe
stone

More William Hazlitt quotes

"
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

"
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

"
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ough...