William Hazlitt quotes

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. (William Hazlitt)
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
William Hazlitt
No young man believes he shall ever die.
William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Silence is the one great art of conversation. (William Hazlitt)
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. (William Hazlitt)
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
Those who can command themselves command others.
William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt