Quotes by William Hazlitt

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

“Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or ...”

“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”

“The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, hones...”

“The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.”

“the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!”

“Words are the only things that last for ever.”

“The path of genius is free, and its own”

“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our”

“THE rule for travelling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind us. The object of travelling is to see and learn; but such is our impatience of ignorance, or the...”

“I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds...”

“Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.”

“Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.”

“Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.”

“A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder an...”

“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mig...”

“The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.”

“Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.”