The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them… — 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… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — 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
