Inspirational Quotes by William Hazlitt

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

— William Hazlitt

Well I've had a happy life.

— William Hazlitt

Faith is necessary to victory.

— William Hazlitt

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

— William Hazlitt

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

— William Hazlitt

Envy is littleness of soul.

— William Hazlitt

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

— William Hazlitt

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

— William Hazlitt

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

— William Hazlitt

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.

— William Hazlitt

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

— William Hazlitt

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

— William Hazlitt

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

— William Hazlitt

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

— William Hazlitt

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

— William Hazlitt

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just…

— William Hazlitt

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of…

— William Hazlitt

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is…

— William Hazlitt

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

— William Hazlitt

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

— William Hazlitt

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

— William Hazlitt

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

— William Hazlitt

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

— William Hazlitt

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

— William Hazlitt

A thought must tell at once, or not at all.

— William Hazlitt

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

— William Hazlitt

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

— William Hazlitt

The more you do, the more you can do.

— William Hazlitt

I am then never less alone than when alone

— William Hazlitt

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

— William Hazlitt

A mighty stream of tendency.

— William Hazlitt

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

— William Hazlitt

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

— William Hazlitt

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

— William Hazlitt

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

— William Hazlitt

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

— William Hazlitt