William Hazlitt Quotes

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.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.

But fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

Grace is rhwe absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incogruity.

have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Hay quienes, con este mismo fin, se marchan a la costa y cargan con ellos la metrópoli; yo prefiero un espacio vital mayor y menores estorbos.

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

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

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

Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least.

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a little
of Shakespear. [Oct. 16, 1814, The Champion]