When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself. — 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 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
It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we… — 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
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — 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
