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William Hazlitt Quotes

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
Book, Before, Read
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
William Hazlitt
Good, Nothing, Else
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
William Hazlitt
Nothing, Else, Able
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
William Hazlitt
Hard, Honest, Born
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
William Hazlitt
Great, Learning, Reward
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt
Themselves, Perfection, Except
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
William Hazlitt
Die, Young, Shall
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William Hazlitt
Old, Against, Cold
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt
Another, Quality, Shining
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
Work, Genius, Profession
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt
Love, Fear, Through
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
William Hazlitt
Joke, Sure, Generally
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt
Art, Pleasing, Pleased
The busier we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
Leisure, Busier
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
William Hazlitt
Rather, Nation, English
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William Hazlitt
Nature, Best, True
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt
Love, Power, Ambition
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
William Hazlitt
Pain, Concern, Millions
The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
William Hazlitt
Learned, Often, Minded
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
William Hazlitt
Nature, Perfect, Heaven
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt
Person, Regret, Pleasure
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
William Hazlitt
Player, Poet, Envies
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
William Hazlitt
Gratitude, Public, Neither
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt
Proud, Last, Himself

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Biography

Nationality: English
Type: Critic
Born: April 10, 1778
Died: September 18, 1830

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