Quotes from William Hazlitt
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- William Hazlitt
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
- William Hazlitt
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
- William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
- William Hazlitt
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
- William Hazlitt
I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.
- William Hazlitt
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- William Hazlitt
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
- William Hazlitt
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
- William Hazlitt
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
- William Hazlitt
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
- William Hazlitt