You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those… — 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
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is… — 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
