William Hazlitt
70 quotations
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
The worst old age is that of the mind.
Life is the art of being well deceived.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
Reflection makes men cowards.
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.