Quotes By William Hazlitt
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
William Hazlitt
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
William Hazlitt
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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
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
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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