Book Quotes by William Hazlitt

Books wind into the heart.

— William Hazlitt

Words are the only things that last for ever.

— William Hazlitt

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

— William Hazlitt

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

— William Hazlitt

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the…

— William Hazlitt

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed…

— William Hazlitt

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume…

— William Hazlitt

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which…

— William Hazlitt

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

— William Hazlitt

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps…

— William Hazlitt

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without…

— William Hazlitt

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made…

— William Hazlitt

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being…

— William Hazlitt

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that…

— William Hazlitt

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me…

— William Hazlitt

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those…

— William Hazlitt

There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions…

— 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

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in…

— William Hazlitt