Source: Sketches and Essays
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Famous William Hazlitt Quotes
“Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
Source: Table talk
Source: Sketches and Essays
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
“We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.”
Source: Political essays, with sketches of public characters
“Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.”
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholars. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy
“Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.”
Source: Table-talk: Or Original Essays
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
Source: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
“A thought must tell at once, or not at all.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
Source: Sketches and Essays
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
“In what we really understand, we reason but little.”
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].