William Hazlitt famous quotes

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
-- William Hazlitt

#Friendship #Substance #Gone

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
-- William Hazlitt

#Peace #War #Humanity

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt

#Attitude #Positive Attitude #Leisure

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
-- William Hazlitt

#Motivational #Happiness #Smile

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
-- William Hazlitt

#Inspirational #Smart #Fall

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
-- William Hazlitt

#Friendship #Strength #Heart

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
-- William Hazlitt

#Leadership #Hate #Stills

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt

#Love #Inspirational #Leadership

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
-- William Hazlitt

#Inspirational #Confidence #Positive Attitude

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
-- William Hazlitt

#Acceptance

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
-- William Hazlitt

#Spiritual #Expression #Soul

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
-- William Hazlitt

#Faith #War #Winning

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
-- William Hazlitt

#Hypocrite #Sleep #Hypocrisy

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt

#Confidence #Self Confidence

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
-- William Hazlitt

#Believe #Men #Animal

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
-- William Hazlitt

#Fashion #Clothes #Dresses

Faith is necessary to victory.
-- William Hazlitt

#Victory

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
-- William Hazlitt

#Life #Travel #Experience

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
-- William Hazlitt

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
-- William Hazlitt

#Political #Interest #Controversy

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
-- William Hazlitt

#Modesty #Great Person #Persons

In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
-- William Hazlitt

#Art #Feelings #Would Be

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
-- William Hazlitt

#Gossip #Should #Said

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
-- William Hazlitt

#Unjust #Public Opinion #Opinion

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
-- William Hazlitt

#Doors #Rooms #Environment

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
-- William Hazlitt

#Death #Giving #Trouble

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
-- William Hazlitt

#Acceptance #People #Uncomfortable

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
-- William Hazlitt

#Life #Greatness #Men

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
-- William Hazlitt

#Power #Knowing #Done

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
-- William Hazlitt

#Hope #Expectations #Counting

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
-- William Hazlitt

#Positive #Teacher #Adversity

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
-- William Hazlitt

#Art #Attention #Hearing

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
-- William Hazlitt

#Forgiveness #Hypocrite #Hypocrisy

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
-- William Hazlitt

#Respect #Men #Way

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
-- William Hazlitt

#Wise #Country #Travel

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
-- William Hazlitt

#Business #Likes

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
-- William Hazlitt

#Nature #Fall #Eye

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
-- William Hazlitt

#Hope #Self Esteem #People

The worst old age is that of the mind.
-- William Hazlitt

#Time #Mind #Age

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
-- William Hazlitt

#Book #Knowledge #World

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt

#Education #Children #Ignorance

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
-- William Hazlitt

#Inspirational #Life #Art

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
-- William Hazlitt

#Respect #Hypocrite #Hype

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
-- William Hazlitt

#Wise #Travel #Stupid

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
-- William Hazlitt

#Mind #Looks #Forget

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
-- William Hazlitt

#Education #Teacher #Money

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
-- William Hazlitt

#Running #Fashion #Gentility

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
-- William Hazlitt

#Poetry #Remember #Poetry Is

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

#Happiness #Beauty #Laughter

[Science is] the desire to know causes.
-- William Hazlitt

#Science #Desire #Causes

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

#Life #Motivational #Laughter

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
-- William Hazlitt

#Liars #Practice #Effort

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
-- William Hazlitt

#Characteristics #Chaucer #Intensity

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
-- William Hazlitt

#Country #Wish #Earth

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
-- William Hazlitt

#Men #Ordinary #Morality

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
-- William Hazlitt

#Practice

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
-- William Hazlitt

#Resistance #Energy #Proportion

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
-- William Hazlitt

#Food #Talking #Salt

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
-- William Hazlitt

#Inspirational #Strong #Mean

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.
-- William Hazlitt

#Love #Gay #Thinking

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
-- William Hazlitt

#Temptation #Liberty #Prohibition

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
-- William Hazlitt

#Love #Joy #Twins

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
-- William Hazlitt

#Success #Achievement #Way

No really great man ever thought himself so.
-- William Hazlitt

#Men #Opinion #Great Men

Those who can command themselves command others.
-- William Hazlitt

#Leadership #Self Control #Command

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
-- William Hazlitt

#Thinking #Effectiveness #Wells

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt

#Positive Thinking #Quarrels #Dissatisfied

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
-- William Hazlitt

#People #Genius #Profession

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
-- William Hazlitt

#Book #Reading #Years

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
-- William Hazlitt

#Two #Hair #Appearance

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
-- William Hazlitt

#Inspirational #Flow #Action

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
-- William Hazlitt

#Women #Men #Grace

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
-- William Hazlitt

#Happiness #Teacher #Attitude

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
-- William Hazlitt

#Love #Force

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
-- William Hazlitt

#Failure #Giving #Doubt

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
-- William Hazlitt

#Life #Travel #Home

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
-- William Hazlitt

#Giving #Acting #Actors

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
-- William Hazlitt

#Respect #Heart #Pride

The more we do, the more we can do.
-- William Hazlitt

#Life Changing #Famous Motivational #Positive Thoughts

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
-- William Hazlitt

#Art #Freedom #Teaching

The more a man writes, the more he can write.
-- William Hazlitt

#Writing #Men

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
-- William Hazlitt

#Men #Names #Devil

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
-- William Hazlitt

#Order #Stupidity #Crowds

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
-- William Hazlitt

#Sports #Hate #Despise

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
-- William Hazlitt

#Spring #Office #Anxiety

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
-- William Hazlitt

#Men #Stronger #Age

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
-- William Hazlitt

#Wise #Men #Hypocrisy

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt

#Hate #Self Hate #Despise

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
-- William Hazlitt

#Men #Hands #Years

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
-- William Hazlitt

#Imagination #Taste #Receiving

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
-- William Hazlitt

#Reality #Greatness #Way