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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
— William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
— William Hazlitt
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
Hope is the best possession.
— William Hazlitt
To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
— William Hazlitt
Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
— William Hazlitt
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
— William Hazlitt
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
— William Hazlitt
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
— William Hazlitt
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
— William Hazlitt
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
— William Hazlitt
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
— William Hazlitt
The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.
— William Hazlitt
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
— William Hazlitt
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
— William Hazlitt
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
— William Hazlitt
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
— William Hazlitt
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.
— William Hazlitt
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
— William Hazlitt
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
— William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
— William Hazlitt
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
— William Hazlitt
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
— William Hazlitt
No really great man ever thought himself so.
— William Hazlitt
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)] — William Hazlitt
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
— William Hazlitt
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
— William Hazlitt
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
— William Hazlitt
We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
— William Hazlitt
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
— William Hazlitt
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
— William Hazlitt
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
— William Hazlitt
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
— William Hazlitt
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
— William Hazlitt
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
— William Hazlitt
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
— William Hazlitt
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
— William Hazlitt
Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
— William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
— William Hazlitt
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
— William Hazlitt
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
— William Hazlitt
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
— William Hazlitt
The soul of dispatch is decision.
— William Hazlitt
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
— William Hazlitt
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
— William Hazlitt
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
— William Hazlitt
Out from under it. "We never do anything well 'til we cease to think about the manner of doing it." - William Hazlitt
— Zig Ziglar
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
— William Hazlitt
While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.
— William Hazlitt
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
— William Hazlitt
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
— William Hazlitt
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
— William Hazlitt
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
— William Hazlitt
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
— William Hazlitt
The only real cure for poverty is production.
— Henry Hazlitt
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
— William Hazlitt
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
— William Hazlitt
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
— William Hazlitt
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
— William Hazlitt
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
— William Hazlitt
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habitor a mask. — William Hazlitt
When providing employment becomes the end, need becomes a subordinate consideration.
— Henry Hazlitt
Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
— William Hazlitt
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
— William Hazlitt
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
— William Hazlitt
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
— William Hazlitt
The more a man writes, the more he can write.
— William Hazlitt
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
— William Hazlitt
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
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.
— William Hazlitt
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
— William Hazlitt
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
— William Hazlitt
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
— William Hazlitt
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
— William Hazlitt
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
— William Hazlitt
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
— William Hazlitt
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
— William Hazlitt
I bear the creature no ill-will, but still I hate the very sight of it.
— William Hazlitt
Taxation for public housing destroys as many jobs in other lines as it creates in housing.
— Henry Hazlitt
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
— William Hazlitt
Silence is one great art of conversation.
— William Hazlitt
We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
— William Hazlitt
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
— William Hazlitt
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
— William Hazlitt
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
— William Hazlitt
The soul of conversation is sympathy.
— William Hazlitt
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (London: Jonathan Cape, 1936, 1969)
— Henry Hazlitt
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
— William Hazlitt
