Quality Quotes by William Hazlitt

11 Quality quotes by William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt’s thoughts on Quality are crisp and observant. This eleven‑line selection offers a quick, thoughtful glimpse into his critical eye.

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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

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

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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and…

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The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of…

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined…

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If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of…

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We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all…

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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such…

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Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy…

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things…

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Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the…

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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on…

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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

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