William Hazlitt
70 quotations
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
Good temper is an estate for life.
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.