Want Quotes by William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

— William Hazlitt

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does…

— William Hazlitt

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

— William Hazlitt

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a…

— William Hazlitt

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write…

— William Hazlitt

What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed…

— William Hazlitt

Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their…

— William Hazlitt

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of…

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how…

— William Hazlitt

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence,…

— William Hazlitt

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very…

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions…

— William Hazlitt

As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons…

— William Hazlitt

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within…

— William Hazlitt