A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. — 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
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
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
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. — 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
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
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
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
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
