179 Quotations by William Hazlitt
- 61. Life is the art of being well deceived.
- 62. Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your per ...
- 63. Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
- 64. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff ...
- 65. Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the d ...
- 66. Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because ...
- 67. Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He wh ...
- 68. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
- 69. No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of hist ...
- 70. No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth and unknown to themselves.
- 71. No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
- 72. No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain ...
- 73. Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
- 74. Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach ...
- 75. Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach ...
- 76. One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
- 77. Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of ...
- 78. Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
- 79. Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
- 80. People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because the ...
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