Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

English writer

Alive from: 1778-1830

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Quotes 31 till 45 of 140.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  His worst is better than any other person's best.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
  
  

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
  
  

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

• William Hazlitt

  

  - +

   0
  Life is the art of being well deceived.