Famous Quotes / William Hazlitt
179 Quotations by William Hazlitt
- 81. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt ...
- 82. Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
- 83. Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.
- 84. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains ...
- 85. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains ...
- 86. Reason, with most people, means their own opinions.
- 87. Reflection makes men cowards.
- 88. Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- 89. Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
- 90. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
- 91. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
- 92. Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
- 93. Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
- 94. Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
- 95. The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- 96. The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
- 97. The art of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
- 98. The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
- 99. The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
- 100. The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spencer, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; and of Sha ...