William Hazlitt Quotes

William Hazlitt (131)

Birth:	10th April, 1778
Death:	18th September, 1830
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Painter, Philosopher, Writer

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• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in True Friends, Friends, Enemies

• To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suffering

• No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as life not be, as not be ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving

• The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destruction, Pain, Value, Concern, Giving

• 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 might have been.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Acceptance, Man

• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Love, Power

  Tags in Liberty, Ourselves, Freedom

• The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• Rules and models destroy genius and art.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Rules, Models, Destroy
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  If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Victory

  Tags in Faith, Win

• We must be doing something to be happy.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy

• There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Country

• When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Controversy, Interest, Cease

• One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Women, Book

• Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lay, Secrets, Book

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intentions, Time, Reading, Book

• 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

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Despises

• 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

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Despise

• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Alive, Speak, Day

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nicknames, Stone, Devil

• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vice, Heroism, Infamy, Virtue, Crime