As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if… — 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
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy… — 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
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
