Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — 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
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it. — 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
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so… — 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
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more… — 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
