Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

English writer

Lived from: 1778 - 1830

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 10 april 1778 Died: 18 september 1830

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  • The worst old age is that of the mind.
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  • There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
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  • There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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  • There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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  • There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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  • There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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  • There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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  • There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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  • There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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  • There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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  • There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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  • There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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  • They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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  • Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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  • Those who can command themselves command others.
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  • Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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  • Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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  • To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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  • To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
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  • To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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