Quotes By William Hazlitt

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.