277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

Half talent is no talent.

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

Loudness is impotence.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.