William Hazlitt Quotes

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

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

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test; for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

There are names written in her immortal scroll, at which FAME blushes!

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

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

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.