One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. William Hazlitt More Quotes by William Hazlitt More Quotes From William Hazlitt I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. William Hazlitt being-the-bestambitionplayer There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. William Hazlitt ignorantignoranceconversation The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture. William Hazlitt practiceopportunitymen If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power. William Hazlitt delicacypersonspower He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt true-friendfearfriendship Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. William Hazlitt respectprideheart Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them. William Hazlitt perseverancepassionambition There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! William Hazlitt immortalnamesfame The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. William Hazlitt ambitionnameslove True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness. William Hazlitt true-frienderrorsreal The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. William Hazlitt self-esteempeoplethinking Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. William Hazlitt common-sensecommunitypeople We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility William Hazlitt sensibilitydeterminedsympathy The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him. William Hazlitt hateevilloss Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. William Hazlitt pride To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. William Hazlitt gossipshouldsaid A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. William Hazlitt dyingactiondeath The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. William Hazlitt curesdyingdeath Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night. William Hazlitt rustichomenight What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is. William Hazlitt clothesfashiontrying
