It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — 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
