KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

William Hazlitt Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by William Hazlitt

Showing 11-20 of 127 Quotes by William Hazlitt

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

~William Hazlitt

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

~William Hazlitt

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

~William Hazlitt

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

~William Hazlitt

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

~William Hazlitt

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

~William Hazlitt

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

~William Hazlitt

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~William Hazlitt

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: April 10th, 1778

Died: September 18th, 1830

Links

Find William Hazlitt on Amazon

Related Authors

Stephen Bayley
Walter Benjamin
Craig Brown
Andrea Dworkin
Terry Eagleton
F. L. Lucas
Tony Parsons
John Simon
Hippolyte Taine
William Warburton

Popular Authors

Susan B. Anthony Robert Baden-Powell Edmund Burke Johnny Depp Bill Gates William Arthur Ward John Wayne Tiger Woods

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1888 - Dale Carnegie

1632 - Baruch Spinoza

1713 - Junipero Serra

1713 - Laurence Sterne

1740 - John Bacon

1784 - Zachary Taylor

1808 - Alphonse Karr

1826 - Carlo Collodi

1864 - Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

1876 - Ameen Rihani

Birthdays on November 24th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Amazing Cool Design Home Leadership Politics Sad Technology