Quotes from William Hazlitt
Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.
- William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.
- William Hazlitt
The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.
- William Hazlitt
We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.
- William Hazlitt
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
- William Hazlitt
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
- William Hazlitt
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
- William Hazlitt
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
- William Hazlitt
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
- William Hazlitt
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.
- William Hazlitt
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
- William Hazlitt
Habit is necessary to give power.
- William Hazlitt