I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. — 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
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
