The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — 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
Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or… — 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
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. — 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
![“A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not…” quote by William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb1/william-hazlitt-326_being-true_a-man-s-reputation-is-not-in-his-own-kee_1982026.jpg)
