William Hazlitt Quotes
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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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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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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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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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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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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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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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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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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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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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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We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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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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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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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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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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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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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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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.