Giving Quotes by William Hazlitt

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

— William Hazlitt

Habit is necessary to give power.

— William Hazlitt

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate…

— William Hazlitt

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant…

— William Hazlitt

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives…

— William Hazlitt

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives…

— William Hazlitt

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out…

— William Hazlitt

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous -…

— William Hazlitt

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or…

— William Hazlitt

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults…

— William Hazlitt

By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either…

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of…

— William Hazlitt

The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it.…

— William Hazlitt

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and…

— William Hazlitt

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right…

— William Hazlitt

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so…

— William Hazlitt

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches…

— William Hazlitt

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence…

— William Hazlitt

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

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.…

— William Hazlitt

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give…

— William Hazlitt

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others…

— William Hazlitt