Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate… — 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
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in… — 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
