| 55 Famous Quotes by William Hazlitt
|
|---|
|
“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
Zeal Quotes |
|
“Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it”
Chivalry Quotes |
|
“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.”
Disgust Quotes |
|
“I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about”
Faults Quotes |
|
“Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul”
Grace Quotes |
|
“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.”
Indiference Quotes |
|
“The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”
Insults Quotes |
|
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
Prejudice Quotes |
|
“If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.”
Victory Quotes |
|
“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
Wit Quotes |
|
“If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read
Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human
learning we may study his commentators.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Table Talk--On the Ignorance of the Learned
|
|
“Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.”
Genius Quotes Source: Table Talk--On Application to Study
|
|
“They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor
goodwill.”
Business Quotes Source: Table Talks (essay XXVII)
|
|
“A mighty stream of tendency.”
Evolution Quotes Source: Essay--Why Distant Objects Please
|
|
“One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more
stood upon than any other thing in the world.
- William Hazlitt,”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 86)
|
|
“The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those
persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: Table-talk--Essay (22)
|
|
“One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had
their business at their fingers' ends.
- William Hazlitt,”
Tailors Quotes Source: Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 93)
|
|
“He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- William Hazlitt,”
Greatness Quotes Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
|
|
“No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,”
Greatness Quotes Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
|
|
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
Greatness Quotes Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
|
|
“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
Wit Quotes Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers (lecture 1)
|
|
“He who would see old Hoghton right
Must view it by the pale moonlight.”
Moon Quotes Source: English Proverbs and Provincial Phrases (p. 196)
|
|
“We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.”
Disguise Quotes |
|
“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
Faith Quotes |
|
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.”
Laughter Quotes |
| [1-25] [26-50] [51-55] Next » |
William Hazlitt Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
|
|
|