I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;… — 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
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
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It… — 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
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise 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
