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
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
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect. — 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
In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — 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
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or… — 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
