William Hazlitt
70 quotations
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
Those who can command themselves command others.
The busier we are the more leisure we have.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.