179 Quotations by William Hazlitt
- 121. The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to r ...
- 122. The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot ...
- 123. The public have neither shame or gratitude.
- 124. The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way.. ...
- 125. The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but ...
- 126. The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da ...
- 127. The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- 128. The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same t ...
- 129. The worst old age is that of the mind.
- 130. There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f ...
- 131. There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an ine ...
- 132. There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
- 133. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- 134. There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
- 135. There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi ...
- 136. There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind ...
- 137. There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
- 138. There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has ...
- 139. There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
- 140. There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal ...
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