Accounts Quote by William Hazlitt

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

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

— William Hazlitt

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

— William Hazlitt

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

— William Hazlitt

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

— William Hazlitt

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

— William Hazlitt

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

— William Hazlitt

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it.

— William Hazlitt

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

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

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

— William Hazlitt