William Hazlitt Quotes
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.