Best William Hazlitt Words
- Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot. Continued
- The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little… Die
- An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. Beyond
- Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back. Frontispieces
- So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have… Away Reading
- Well I've had a happy life. Happy
- The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. Emo
- It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they… Believe
- Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is… Any
- Faith is necessary to victory. Faith
- Words are the only things that last for ever. Book
- A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. Chessplayer
- The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud. Aloud
- The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote. Funny
- Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom,… Abuse
- I am then never less alone than when alone Alone
- It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed. Essential
- Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected… All
- Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly… Amuse
- The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. Contempt
- When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. Country
- Hope is the best possession. Best
- No truly great person ever thought themselves so. Ever Thought
- Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by… Confession
- The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to… Affection
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