William Hazlitt Quotes
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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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 find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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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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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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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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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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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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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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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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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
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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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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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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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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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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility