Quotes By William Hazlitt
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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
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
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
William Hazlitt
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
William Hazlitt
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William Hazlitt