The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to… — 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
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud. — 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 Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
