William Hazlitt Quotes
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
[Truth]
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
[Courage]
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
[Secrecy]
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
[Vice]
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman. - Elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
[Gentleman]
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
[Poetry]
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
[Poverty]
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Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
[Poverty]
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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
[Prejudice]
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance
[Prejudice]
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Principle is a passion for truth and right.
[Principles]
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
[Adversity]
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Reason, with most people, means their own opinions.
[Decisions]
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
[Conversation]
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