Men Quotes by William Hazlitt

No really great man ever thought himself so.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

— William Hazlitt

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

Reflection makes men cowards.

— William Hazlitt

An honest man is respected by all parties.

— William Hazlitt

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

— William Hazlitt

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

— William Hazlitt

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

— William Hazlitt

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

— William Hazlitt

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

— William Hazlitt

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

— William Hazlitt

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and…

— 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

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of…

— William Hazlitt

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with…

— William Hazlitt

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and…

— 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

His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be…

— William Hazlitt

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being…

— William Hazlitt

There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and…

— William Hazlitt

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the…

— William Hazlitt

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how…

— William Hazlitt

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…

— William Hazlitt

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within…

— William Hazlitt

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the…

— 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

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there…

— William Hazlitt

We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all…

— William Hazlitt

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

— William Hazlitt

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

— William Hazlitt

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

— William Hazlitt