All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — 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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