William Hazlitt Quotes
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Any one who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
[Forgiveness]
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
[Positive]
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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By conversing with the mighty dead we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages.
[Reading]
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Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Cant is the voluntary over charging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up pretence to a feeling you never had, and have no wish for.
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Conceit is the most contemptible, and one of the most odious qualities in the world. - It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
[Conceit]
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. - It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
[Cowardice]
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
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Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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Do you suppose we owe nothing to Pope's deformity? - He said to himself "If my person be crooked, my verses shall be straight."
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
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