179 Quotations by William Hazlitt
- 161. We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their c ...

- 162. We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

- 163. We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-int ...

- 164. We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage ...

- 165. We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

- 166. We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

- 167. We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

- 168. We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their ...

- 169. We must be doing something to be happy.

- 170. We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

- 171. We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

- 172. We often choose a friend as we do a mistress, for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely ...

- 173. We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

- 174. When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

- 175. Who likes not his business, his business likes not him

- 176. Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

- 177. Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

- 178. You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the wo ...

- 179. Zeal will do more than knowledge.

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