Inspirational Quotes by William Hazlitt · Page 2

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

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

— William Hazlitt

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

— William Hazlitt

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

— William Hazlitt

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

— William Hazlitt

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

— William Hazlitt

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

— William Hazlitt

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

— William Hazlitt

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

— William Hazlitt

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

— William Hazlitt

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

— William Hazlitt

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

— William Hazlitt

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

— William Hazlitt

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

— William Hazlitt

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

— William Hazlitt

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

— William Hazlitt

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

— William Hazlitt

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

— William Hazlitt

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.

— William Hazlitt