William Hazlitt Quotes

Man is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.

So have I 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.