The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
– William Hazlitt
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
– William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
– William Hazlitt
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
– William Hazlitt
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
– William Hazlitt
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
– William Hazlitt
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
– William Hazlitt
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
– William Hazlitt
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
– William Hazlitt
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
– William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
– William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
– William Hazlitt
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
– William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
– William Hazlitt
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
– William Hazlitt
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
– 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
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
– William Hazlitt
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
– William Hazlitt
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
– William Hazlitt
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
– William Hazlitt
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
– William Hazlitt
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
– 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
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
– William Hazlitt
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.