Quotes William Hazlitt

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wo...

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -...

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one t...

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush....

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no resp...

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at...

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is n...

A wise traveler never despises his own country....

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its ess...

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; ...

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a cla...

As is our confidence, so is our capacity....

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets...

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discov...

Dandyism is a variety of genius....

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellow...

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substa...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and ta...

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of ju...

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and...

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ord...

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vib...

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. ...

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of p...

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use....