Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
