Quotes from William Hazlitt
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
An honest man is respected by all parties.
— William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
— William Hazlitt
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
— William Hazlitt
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
— William Hazlitt
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
— William Hazlitt
Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
— William Hazlitt
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
— William Hazlitt
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
— William Hazlitt
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
— William Hazlitt
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
— William Hazlitt
Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.
— William Hazlitt