Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
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Famous William Hazlitt Quotes
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”
Source: William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“The most learned are often the most narrow minded.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”
Source: Table-talk: Or Original Essays
“I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Sketches and Essays
“If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.”
Source: Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...
“No young man ever thinks he shall die.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.”
Source: Lectures on the English Poets
“The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
Source: Criticisms on Art
“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”
Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
“The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
Source: Sketches and Essays
Source: Sketches and Essays
“Those who can command themselves command others.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
Source: Selections from William Hazlitt
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Essays