Quotes from William Hazlitt
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
- William Hazlitt
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
- William Hazlitt
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
- William Hazlitt
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
- 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
Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
- 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
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
- William Hazlitt
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
- William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- William Hazlitt
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
- William Hazlitt
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
- William Hazlitt