Life Quotes by William Hazlitt

Good temper is an estate for life.

— William Hazlitt

Well I've had a happy life.

— William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived.

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

— William Hazlitt

“All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it”

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

— William Hazlitt

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

— William Hazlitt

We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

— William Hazlitt

“the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!”

— william hazlitt

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

— William Hazlitt

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

— William Hazlitt

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness…

— William Hazlitt

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches…

— William Hazlitt

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those…

— William Hazlitt

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence;…

— William Hazlitt

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it…

— William Hazlitt

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the…

— William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

— William Hazlitt

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not…

— William Hazlitt

What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if…

— William Hazlitt

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We…

— William Hazlitt

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.…

— William Hazlitt

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without…

— William Hazlitt

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very…

— William Hazlitt

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.…

— William Hazlitt

Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little…

— William Hazlitt

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is…

— William Hazlitt

“In private life do we not see hypocrisy, servility, selfishness, folly, and impudence succeed, while modesty shrinks from the encounter, and merit…

— William Hazlitt

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous…

— William Hazlitt

“He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of…

— William Hazlitt

When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is…

— William Hazlitt

With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart…

— William Hazlitt

“A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is considerable, and…

— William Hazlitt

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

— William Hazlitt

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

— William Hazlitt

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

— William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

— William Hazlitt