Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits… — 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
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of… — 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
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — 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
