Love Quotes by William Hazlitt · Page 2

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

The more you do, the more you can do.

— William Hazlitt

I am then never less alone than when alone

— William Hazlitt

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

— William Hazlitt

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

— William Hazlitt

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest…

— William Hazlitt

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him…

— William Hazlitt

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with…

— William Hazlitt

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance…

— William Hazlitt

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

— William Hazlitt

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of…

— William Hazlitt

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do;…

— William Hazlitt

“Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.”

— William Hazlitt

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

— 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

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

— William Hazlitt

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.

— William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession.

— William Hazlitt

Whatever interests is interesting.

— William Hazlitt

The soul of dispatch is decision.

— William Hazlitt

When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is…

— William Hazlitt