William Hazlitt Quotes

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

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

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

As is our confidence, so is our capacity

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spenser, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; of Shakespeare, every thing.

Indeed some degree of affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body; we must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.

The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.

Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.

To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

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