Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. — 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