Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them. — 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
He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done… — 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
