William Hazlitt Quotes

• To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leaders, Follow, Thinking

• To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Contempt, Treated

• To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Along, Be True, Be Happy, Age And Aging

• To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Goodness, Heart, Strength

• To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem… ridiculous.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Superior, Pretensions, Race, Virtue

• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Contempt, Admiration, Edge, Familiarity

• Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith’s bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Alive, Speak, Day

• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Dress

• Those who can command themselves command others.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Command

• There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Country

• There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Prejudice, Fancied

• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Idiot, We Cannot, Stupidity

• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Pride, Tyranny, Order

• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vice, Heroism, Infamy, Virtue, Crime

• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Rules, Force

• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Entertain, Displease

• The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Ourselves, Vocation

• The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Neighbours, World

• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of – the last he does not concern himself about.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inferiors, Pride, Man

• The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Barbarous, Thinks

William Hazlitt (154)

Birth:	10th April, 1778
Death:	18th September, 1830
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Painter, Philosopher, Writer

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