Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes… — 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
