Quotes from William Hazlitt
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
- William Hazlitt
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
- 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
Reflection makes men cowards.
- William Hazlitt
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
- William Hazlitt
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
- William Hazlitt
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
- William Hazlitt
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
- William Hazlitt
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
- William Hazlitt
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
- William Hazlitt
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
- William Hazlitt
Principle is a passion for truth.
- William Hazlitt