William Hazlitt Quotes


242 William Hazlitt quotes:



"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them"
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Commitment Quotes
"To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us"
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes
"The youth is better than the old age of friendship."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes
"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Contempt Quotes
"The soul of conversation is sympathy."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Conversation Quotes
"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Advantage Quotes
"No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Existence Quotes
"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."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Fools And Foolishness Quotes
"It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man"
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Fools And Foolishness Quotes
"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."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Heart Quotes
"The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Learning Quotes
"The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"We can scarcely hate anyone that we know."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Hate Quotes
"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."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"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."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes



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