Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
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Famous William Hazlitt Quotes
“Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”
Source: Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...
“Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Malice often takes the garb of truth.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
“The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.”
“The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Source: The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.”
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].
“I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.”
Source: The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: A reply to 'Z.' A letter to William Gifford, esq. Prefatory remarks to Oxberry's New English drama. Liber amoris; or, The new Pygmalion. Characteristics. Preface and critical list of authors from Select British poets
“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
“By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
Source: The Letters of William Hazlitt
Source: The Letters of William Hazlitt
Source: The Complete Works of William Hazlitt
Source: Table-talk: Or Original Essays
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Source: Miscellaneous writings
Source: Sketches and Essays
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.”
“A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.”
Source: Table talk
“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Table-talk Or Original Essays. - London, Colburn 1822
“There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt
“The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)