I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors… — 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
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — 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
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem… — 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
If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of… — 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
When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves. — 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
