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William Hazlitt Quote: “Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous – the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The worst old age is that of the mind.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We must be doing something to be happy.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The 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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.”
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