Best William Hazlitt Lines
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive… Action
- Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Actors
- A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. Beyond
- Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken Afraid
- Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes,… Able
- Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a… Air
- One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature… Alone
- If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded. All
- Silence is one great art of conversation. Art
- Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong. Comparatively
- The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and… Argue
- I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of… Act
- Knowledge is pleasure as well as power. Inspirational
- The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. Characteristic
- A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. Dignity
- ...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. Dignity
- A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. Dignity
- No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. Act
- Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of… Comedy
- They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. Acting
- When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress… Any
- Whatever interests is interesting. Inspirational
- The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. Fluent
- The more a man writes, the more he can write. Inspirational
- Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man… Always Improving
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