The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. — 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
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
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense… — 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
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence;… — 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
