Books Quotes by William Hazlitt

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

— William Hazlitt

Books wind into the heart.

— 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

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

— William Hazlitt

“We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.”

— William Hazlitt

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

— William Hazlitt

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

— 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

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

— 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

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." [ The Sick Chamber ( The…

— William Hazlitt

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him…

— William Hazlitt

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be…

— William Hazlitt

Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— William Hazlitt