William Hazlitt Quotes

• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adorn, Happiness, Fire

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Art, Love

  Tags in Deception, Succeed, Order

• Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reward, Learning

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Dissent

  Tags in Politician, Hard

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Neither, Write, Able

• If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Victory

  Tags in Faith, Win

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chance

• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Genius, Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Learning, Hope, Reading, Wishing

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

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Subject, Speculation

• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intentions, Time, Reading, Book

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Smart

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Spend, Travel

• Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Fear, Friendship

  Tags in True Friends, Friends, Enemies

• He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Justly, Undervalue

• Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reduced, Thought

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Expression, Inward, Govern, Grace

• Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Govern, Grace

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Preserver, Features, Temper

• Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Genius, Humanity

  Tags in Rusts, Use

William Hazlitt (154)

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

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