There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power isthe love of ourselves. — 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 love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal. — 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
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
