Love Quotes by William Hazlitt

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

— William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession.

— William Hazlitt

Faith is necessary to victory.

— William Hazlitt

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

— William Hazlitt

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

— William Hazlitt

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

— William Hazlitt

Envy is littleness of soul.

— William Hazlitt

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

— William Hazlitt

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

— William Hazlitt

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

— William Hazlitt

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.

— William Hazlitt

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

— William Hazlitt

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power isthe love of ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

— William Hazlitt

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

— William Hazlitt

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)”

— 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

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

— William Hazlitt

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give…

— William Hazlitt

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we…

— William Hazlitt

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at…

— William Hazlitt

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence,…

— William Hazlitt

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.…

— William Hazlitt

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason…

— William Hazlitt

To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment,…

— William Hazlitt

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse.…

— 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

The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is…

— William Hazlitt

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or…

— William Hazlitt

A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises…

— William Hazlitt

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined…

— William Hazlitt

People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that…

— 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

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding…

— William Hazlitt

Whatever interests is interesting.

— William Hazlitt

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

— William Hazlitt

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.

— William Hazlitt

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

— William Hazlitt