William Hazlitt Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
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.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
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.
There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
The old maxim ... there are three things necessary to success in life
Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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.
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.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
Painters ... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.