Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over… — 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
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in… — 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
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and… — 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
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