William Hazlitt Quotes

• The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Liberty, Journey

• The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pain, Finger, Millions

• The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Heart, Judge

• The public have neither shame or gratitude.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Gratitude, Neither

• The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Vocation, Envies

• The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Favors, Pleasure, Regret

• The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Cravings, Heaven, Satisfy, Perfect

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vice, Hypocrisy, Repentance

• The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudice, Minded, Learned

• The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Hope, Neighbors

• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Wound, The Mind

• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Love, Power

  Tags in Liberty, Ourselves, Freedom

• The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destruction, Pain, Value, Concern, Giving

• The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Incentive

• The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scholar, Humblest, Painter

• The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in English, Owned

• The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Despise

• The busier we are the more leisure we have.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Busier, Leisure

• The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Consists, The Art Of, Pleasing

• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Endure

William Hazlitt (154)

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

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