Opinion Quotes by William Hazlitt

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.

— William Hazlitt

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

— William Hazlitt

No really great man ever thought himself so.

— William Hazlitt

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

— William Hazlitt

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

— William Hazlitt

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

— William Hazlitt

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

— William Hazlitt

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

— William Hazlitt

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

— William Hazlitt

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of…

— William Hazlitt

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

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits…

— William Hazlitt

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of…

— William Hazlitt

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty…

— William Hazlitt

True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors…

— William Hazlitt

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how…

— William Hazlitt

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so…

— William Hazlitt

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an…

— William Hazlitt

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first…

— William Hazlitt

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not…

— William Hazlitt

Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person…

— William Hazlitt

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within…

— William Hazlitt

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