Hazlitt, William (1834 - 1913)

English Writer

Quotations By This Source

 Action

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.

 Beauty

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

 Belief

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

 Benevolence

Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing are not to be trusted with the management of any great question.

 Conformity

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

 Education

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.

 Friendship

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

 Honesty And Truth

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

 Humility

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

 Insults

The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.

 Misc

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

 Morality

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

 Self Esteem

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

 Society

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

 Success

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

 Tradition

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

 Writing

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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