William Hazlitt Quotes
+3The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
- William Hazlitt
+1The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- William Hazlitt
+1I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
- William Hazlitt
+1The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
- William Hazlitt
+1Science is the desire to know causes.
- William Hazlitt
+1Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
- William Hazlitt
+1The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
- William Hazlitt
+1Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
- William Hazlitt
+1Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- William Hazlitt
+1Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
- William Hazlitt
+1A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
- William Hazlitt
+1We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill.
- William Hazlitt
+1We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- William Hazlitt
+1To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
- William Hazlitt
+1We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
- William Hazlitt
+1None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.
- William Hazlitt
+1No young man believes he will ever die.
- William Hazlitt
+1There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.
- William Hazlitt
+1The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree show, without supplying it with any ideas.
- William Hazlitt
+1Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
- William Hazlitt
+1Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
- William Hazlitt
+1Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it.
- William Hazlitt
+1We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility.
- William Hazlitt
0The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
0Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
- William Hazlitt