William Hazlitt Quotes

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William Hazlitt

Profession : Critic

Birth : April 10, 1778

The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

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

William Hazlitt

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

William Hazlitt

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

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

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.

William Hazlitt

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

William Hazlitt

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

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

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt

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

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

William Hazlitt

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

William Hazlitt