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
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else. — 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
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he… — 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
