179 Quotations by William Hazlitt
- 141. There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the ...
- 142. There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character
- 143. They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
- 144. They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer ...
- 145. Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
- 146. Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- 147. Those who can command themselves command others.
- 148. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value ...
- 149. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
- 150. To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see ...
- 151. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodnes ...
- 152. To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
- 153. To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we ...
- 154. To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the cha ...
- 155. To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to f ...
- 156. To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
- 157. To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
- 158. True friendship is self-love at second hand.
- 159. We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
- 160. We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
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