When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such… — 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… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and… — 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
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of… — 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
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