Quotes By William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William Hazlitt
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
William Hazlitt
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
William Hazlitt
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.
William Hazlitt
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
William Hazlitt
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
William Hazlitt
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
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.
William Hazlitt
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
William Hazlitt
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
William Hazlitt
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.
William Hazlitt
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.
William Hazlitt
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
William Hazlitt
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt