The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. William Hazlitt More Quotes by William Hazlitt More Quotes From William Hazlitt To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. William Hazlitt agetimebirthday What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves. William Hazlitt succeedlightlooks Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary. William Hazlitt talentgeniuscapacity Time,--the most independent of all things. William Hazlitt independentall-thingstime A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth. William Hazlitt understandingairfeelings To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. William Hazlitt virtuewishthinking Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. William Hazlitt foolwisemen We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom. William Hazlitt good-intentionsqualityuse The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. William Hazlitt reversedignityfortune To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes. William Hazlitt stylechoiceswriting The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one. William Hazlitt readinglife-isbook Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. William Hazlitt indifferencehatredlittles The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. William Hazlitt compositioncriticsoriginals The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. William Hazlitt youthcausesdeath The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. William Hazlitt passionlettersmen Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. William Hazlitt monumentdeserveneeds Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth. William Hazlitt acknowledgementforcelying Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. William Hazlitt opinionfaceslying Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment. William Hazlitt passionreflectionmen An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. William Hazlitt truthmenorder
