William Hazlitt Quotes
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
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The worst old age is that of the mind.
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Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
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Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
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A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Words are the only things that last for ever.
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.