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William Hazlitt quotes (127) A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt Category: 
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. William Hazlitt Category:
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. William Hazlitt Category:
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. William Hazlitt Category:
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. William Hazlitt Category:
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. William Hazlitt Category:
A wise traveler never despises his own country. William Hazlitt Category: Travel
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. William Hazlitt Category:
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. William Hazlitt Category:
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. William Hazlitt Category:
As is our confidence, so is our capacity. William Hazlitt Category:
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt Category:
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. William Hazlitt Category:
Dandyism is a variety of genius. William Hazlitt Category:
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. William Hazlitt Category:
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt Category:
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. William Hazlitt Category:
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 Category:
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt Category:
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. William Hazlitt Category:
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. William Hazlitt Category:
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 Category:
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt Category:
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. William Hazlitt Category:
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. William Hazlitt Category:
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt Category:
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. William Hazlitt Category:
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. William Hazlitt Category:
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt Category:
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. William Hazlitt Category:
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. William Hazlitt Category:
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt Category:
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. William Hazlitt Category:
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. William Hazlitt Category:
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. William Hazlitt Category:
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. William Hazlitt Category:
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 Category:
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. William Hazlitt Category:
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. William Hazlitt Category:
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. William Hazlitt Category:
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt Category:
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. William Hazlitt Category:
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. William Hazlitt Category:
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. William Hazlitt Category: Travel
Learning is its own exceeding great reward. William Hazlitt Category:
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt Category:
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. William Hazlitt Category:
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. William Hazlitt Category:
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. William Hazlitt Category:
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt Category:
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. William Hazlitt Category:
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. William Hazlitt Category:
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. William Hazlitt Category:
No young man ever thinks he shall die. William Hazlitt Category:
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. William Hazlitt Category:
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. William Hazlitt Category:
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. William Hazlitt Category:
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. William Hazlitt Category:
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. William Hazlitt Category: Poetry
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. William Hazlitt Category:
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. William Hazlitt Category:
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt Category:
Reflection makes men cowards. William Hazlitt Category:
Rules and models destroy genius and art. William Hazlitt Category: Art
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. William Hazlitt Category:
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. William Hazlitt Category:
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. William Hazlitt Category:
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. William Hazlitt Category:
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt Category:
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. William Hazlitt Category:
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