Inspirational Quotes by William Hazlitt · Page 3

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

— William Hazlitt

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— 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 only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence;…

— William Hazlitt

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

— William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession.

— William Hazlitt

The soul of dispatch is decision.

— William Hazlitt