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William Hazlitt Quote: “Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Gallantry to women – the sure road to their favor – is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “True friendship is self-love at second-hand.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face, – compare notes and chat the hour away.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We often choose a friend as we do a mistress – for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “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 Quote: “There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “No young man ever thinks he shall die.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “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 Quote: “Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Principle is a passion for truth.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “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 Quote: “That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Reflection makes men cowards.”
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