179 Quotations by William Hazlitt
- 1. A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig ...
- 2. A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best ...
- 3. A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
- 4. A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of ...
- 5. A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
- 6. A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pai ...
- 7. A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
- 8. A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imaginati ...
- 9. A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
- 10. A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
- 11. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me ...
- 12. A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who ...
- 13. An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
- 14. Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a foo ...
- 15. As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
- 16. Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that ...
- 17. Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and ...
- 18. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering the weaknesses of others.
- 19. Death cancels everything but trut, and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sor ...
- 20. Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the deat ...
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