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
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by… — 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
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous -… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or… — 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
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so… — 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
