William Hazlitt Quotes & Quotations

William Hazlitt Quotes

» Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

» Anyone who has passed through 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.

» There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

» We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

» The worst old age is that of the mind.

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

» 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.

» Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

» The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

» Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

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