William Hazlitt Quotes

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

By 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 are and what they ought to be.

By 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 are, and what they ought to be.

By William Hazlitt

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

By William Hazlitt

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

By William Hazlitt

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

By William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

By William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

By William Hazlitt

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

By William Hazlitt

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

By William Hazlitt

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

By William Hazlitt

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.

By William Hazlitt

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.

By William Hazlitt

If the schemes of Utopians could be realized, the tone of society would be changed from what it is, into a sort of insipid high life. There could be no fine tragedies written; nor would there be any pleasure in seeing them. We tend to this conclusion already with the progress of civilization.

By William Hazlitt

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

By William Hazlitt

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

By William Hazlitt

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

By William Hazlitt

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

By William Hazlitt

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

By William Hazlitt

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

By William Hazlitt

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

By William Hazlitt

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

By William Hazlitt

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

By William Hazlitt

He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.

By William Hazlitt

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

By William Hazlitt

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

By William Hazlitt

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

By William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

By William Hazlitt

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

By William Hazlitt

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

By William Hazlitt