Best William Hazlitt Quotations
- Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent… All
- We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. All
- The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a… Asked
- Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. Genius
- The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. Abroad
- I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me Company
- There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right… Agreeable
- A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… Aspire
- They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… Actors
- Good temper is an estate for life. Estate
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. Any
- I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in… Beast
- Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. Confidence
- The essence of poetry is will and passion. Essence
- Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. Crowd
- The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the… Anything Short
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… Blinds
- The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul,… Beauty
- If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea… Anything Else
- The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… Aching
- There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it… Afraid
- Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy. Blasphemy
- Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to… Crowd
- No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as… Aged
- The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. Business
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