If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
William Hazlitt

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
William Hazlitt

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
William Hazlitt

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
William Hazlitt

No young man ever thinks he shall die.
William Hazlitt

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William Hazlitt

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt