Wells Quotes by William Hazlitt

Well I've had a happy life.

— William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived.

— William Hazlitt

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

— William Hazlitt

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

— William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

— William Hazlitt

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

— William Hazlitt

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

— William Hazlitt

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

— William Hazlitt

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

— William Hazlitt

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem…

— William Hazlitt

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy…

— William Hazlitt

Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond…

— William Hazlitt

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall…

— William Hazlitt

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it…

— William Hazlitt

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,…

— William Hazlitt

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world…

— William Hazlitt

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes…

— William Hazlitt

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is…

— William Hazlitt

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

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.…

— William Hazlitt

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in…

— William Hazlitt

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous…

— 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