Quotes By William Hazlitt
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William Hazlitt
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
William Hazlitt
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 ought to be.
William Hazlitt
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
William Hazlitt
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William Hazlitt
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt