Quotes from William Hazlitt
[Science is] the desire to know causes.
- William Hazlitt
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
- William Hazlitt
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
- William Hazlitt
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
- William Hazlitt
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
- William Hazlitt
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
- William Hazlitt
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
- William Hazlitt
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
- 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
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- William Hazlitt
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
- William Hazlitt
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
- William Hazlitt