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William Hazlitt

Birthday: April 10, 1778
Deathday: September 18, 1830
Category: English Critic
Type: Critic
National: English

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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can...

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively...

A hair in the head is worth two in the...

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no...

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can...

A scholar is like a book written in a dead...

A wise traveler never despises his own country....

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its...

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give...

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a...

As is our confidence, so is our capacity....

Books let us into their souls and lay open to...

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and...

Dandyism is a variety of genius....

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows...

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to...

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love...

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship,...

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to...

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating....

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of...

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want...

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use....

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the...

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the...

Grace in women has more effect than beauty....

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or...

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of...

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts....

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others....

He will never have true friends who is afraid of...

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but...

I like a friend the better for having faults that...

I should like to spend the whole of my life...

I would like to spend the whole of my life...

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw...

If I have not read a book before, it is,...

If the world were good for nothing else, it is...

If we wish to know the force of human genius,...

If you give an audience a chance they will do...

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith...

It is better to be able neither to read nor...

It is hard for any one to be an honest...

It is not fit that every man should travel; it...

Learning is its own exceeding great reward....

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in...

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in...

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust;...

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly...

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for...

No man is truly great who is great only in...

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown...

No truly great person ever thought themselves so....

No young man ever thinks he shall die....

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless,...

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides...

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us,...

People of genius do not excel in any profession because...

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life....

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with...

Prejudice is the child of ignorance....

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater....

Reflection makes men cowards....

Rules and models destroy genius and art....

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through...

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by...

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them....

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them....

That which is not, shall never be; that which is,...

The art of life is to know how to enjoy...

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased....

The busier we are the more leisure we have....

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have...

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed...

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best...

The incentive to ambition is the love of power....

The least pain in our little finger gives us more...

The love of liberty is the love of others; the...

The mind of man is like a clock that is...

The more we do, the more we can do....

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer...

The most learned are often the most narrow minded....

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The...

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings...

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and...

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only...

The public have neither shame or gratitude....

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom,...

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more...

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to...

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but...

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The...

The way to get on in the world is to...

The world judge of men by their ability in their...

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more...

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left...

There is a heroism in crime as well as in...

There is a secret pride in every human heart that...

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much...

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises...

There is nothing good to be had in the country,...

Those who are at war with others are not at...

Those who can command themselves command others....

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves,...

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they...

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the...

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind...

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are...

To be happy, we must be true to nature and...

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor...

To get others to come into our ways of thinking,...

To give a reason for anything is to breed a...

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep....

We are very much what others think of us. The...

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our...

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know....

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with...

We find many things to which the prohibition of them...

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule,...

We must be doing something to be happy....

We never do anything well till we cease to think...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress...

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy,...

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food....

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not...

You know more of a road by having traveled it...

Zeal will do more than knowledge....