William Hazlitt Quotes
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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Hope is the best possession.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
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We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.