Common Quotes by William Hazlitt

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

— William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

— William Hazlitt

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

— William Hazlitt

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

— William Hazlitt

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become…

— William Hazlitt

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

— William Hazlitt

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses,…

— William Hazlitt

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him…

— William Hazlitt

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— 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

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and…

— 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

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions…

— William Hazlitt

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations…

— William Hazlitt

“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had…

— 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

However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us…

— William Hazlitt