Quotes from William Hazlitt
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
- William Hazlitt
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
- William Hazlitt
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
- William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
- William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- William Hazlitt
The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
- William Hazlitt
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
- William Hazlitt
We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.
- William Hazlitt
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
- 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
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
- William Hazlitt