Quotes By 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
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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
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
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
William Hazlitt