--- title: "23 Wells Quotes By William Hazlitt" description: "23 Wells quotes by William Hazlitt. Plus more from William Hazlitt and more Wells sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/william-hazlitt-326_inspirational_knowledge-is-pleasure-as-well-as-power-1_1029542.png" --- > [Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/knowledge-is-pleasure-as-well-as-power/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/william-hazlitt-326_inspirational_knowledge-is-pleasure-as-well-as-power-1_1029542.png) > [Life is the art of being well deceived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/life-is-the-art-of-being-well-deceived/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e19/william-hazlitt-326_art_life-is-the-art-of-being-well-deceived-2_2162263.png) > [Well I've had a happy life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/well-i-ve-had-a-happy-life/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c1/william-hazlitt-326_happiest_well-i-ve-had-a-happy-life-2042973_2042973.png) > [The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/the-art-of-conversation-is-the-art-of-hearing-as-well-as-of-being/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31f/william-hazlitt-326_art_the-art-of-conversation-is-the-art-of-he_339013.png) > [The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/the-truth-is-we-pamper-little-griefs-into-great-ones-and-bear-great/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/897/william-hazlitt-326_bears_the-truth-is-we-pamper-little-griefs-int_1324980.png) > [Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/perhaps-the-best-cure-for-the-fear-of-death-is-to-reflect-that-life/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44e/william-hazlitt-326_cures_perhaps-the-best-cure-for-the-fear-of-de_259726.png) > [The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/the-vices-are-never-so-well-employed-as-in-combating-one-another/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/william-hazlitt-326_employed_the-vices-are-never-so-well-employed-as_2382380.png) > [There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/there-is-an-unseemly-exposure-of-the-mind-as-well-as-of-the-body/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/william-hazlitt-326_body_there-is-an-unseemly-exposure-of-the-min_2617793.png) > [I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/i-am-always-afraid-of-a-fool-one-cannot-be-sure-that-he-is-not-a/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5d/william-hazlitt-326_afraid_i-am-always-afraid-of-a-fool-one-cannot_701913.png) > [Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/those-who-wish-to-forget-painful-thoughts-do-well-to-absent/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/william-hazlitt-326_absent_those-who-wish-to-forget-painful-thought_1536323.png) > [Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/languages-happily-restrict-the-mind-to-what-is-of-its-own-native/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c17/william-hazlitt-326_country_languages-happily-restrict-the-mind-to-w_2687761.jpg) > [To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/to-speak-highly-of-one-with-whom-we-are-intimate-is-a-species-of/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/william-hazlitt-326_caution_to-speak-highly-of-one-with-whom-we-are_809999.png) > [It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/it-is-well-there-is-no-one-without-fault-for-he-would-not-have-a/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/william-hazlitt-326_different_it-is-well-there-is-no-one-without-fault_197663.png) > [We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/we-never-do-anything-well-till-we-cease-to-think-about-the-manner-of/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b5/william-hazlitt-326_cease_we-never-do-anything-well-till-we-cease_1249572.png) > [Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/weakness-has-its-hidden-resources-as-well-as-strength-there-is-a/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/william-hazlitt-326_ability_weakness-has-its-hidden-resources-as-wel_2441662.jpg) > [I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/i-am-not-in-the-ordinary-acceptation-of-the-term-a-good-natured-man/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/william-hazlitt-326_annoying_i-am-not-in-the-ordinary-acceptation-of_3148633.png) > [Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/popularity-disarms-envy-in-well-disposed-minds-those-are-ever-the/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/442/william-hazlitt-326_done_popularity-disarms-envy-in-well-disposed_804630.png) > [We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/we-have-more-faith-in-a-well-written-romance-while-we-are-reading-it/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/william-hazlitt-326_cases_we-have-more-faith-in-a-well-written-rom_2116366.png) > [There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/there-is-a-quiet-repose-and-steadiness-about-the-happiness-of-age-if/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf9/william-hazlitt-326_age_there-is-a-quiet-repose-and-steadiness-a_3035949.jpg) > [Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/perhaps-the-best-cure-for-the-fear-of-death-is-to-reflect-that-life-3/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdd/william-hazlitt-326_concern_perhaps-the-best-cure-for-the-fear-of-de_2002850.jpg) > [He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/he-who-expects-from-a-great-name-in-politics-in-philosophy-in-art/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcf/william-hazlitt-326_art_he-who-expects-from-a-great-name-in-poli_2373613.png) > [There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/there-are-persons-who-are-never-easy-unless-they-are-putting-your/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dd/william-hazlitt-326_abraham_there-are-persons-who-are-never-easy-unl_1563432.png) > [A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/a-full-dressed-ecclesiastic-is-a-sort-of-go-cart-of-divinity-an/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8de/william-hazlitt-326_aspire_a-full-dressed-ecclesiastic-is-a-sort-of_1812423.jpg) ## Other authors on Wells ## More by William Hazlitt > [First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/first-impressions-are-often-the-truest-as-we-find-not-infrequently-to/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/the-art-of-life-is-to-know-how-to-enjoy-a-little-and-to-endure-very/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/we-are-thankful-for-good-will-rather-than-for-services-for-the-motive/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/the-discussing-the-characters-and-foibles-of-common-friends-is-a/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/want-of-principle-is-power-truth-and-honesty-set-a-limit-to-our/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/repose-is-as-necessary-in-conversation-as-in-a-picture/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/no-act-terminating-in-itself-constitutes-greatness/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/vice-is-man-s-nature-virtue-is-a-habit-or-a-mask/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/we-never-do-anything-well-till-we-cease-to-think-about-the-manner/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/man-is-the-only-animal-that-laughs-and-weeps-for-he-is-the-only/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/those-who-have-had-none-of-the-cares-of-this-life-to-harass-and/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/poverty-when-it-is-voluntary-is-never-despicable-but-takes-an/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/we-are-not-satisfied-to-be-right-unless-we-can-prove-others-to-be/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/the-world-judge-of-men-by-their-ability-in-their-profession-and-we/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) > [The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/the-best-part-of-our-lives-we-pass-in-counting-on-what-is-to-come/) [William 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