William Hazlitt Quotes

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

The more we do, the more we can do.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.