We are not hypocrites in our sleep. William Hazlitt More Quotes by William Hazlitt More Quotes From William Hazlitt It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. William Hazlitt sadness grief taste Life is the art of being well deceived. William Hazlitt deceived-us deception art Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal. William Hazlitt pain hate hatred The more you do, the more you can do. William Hazlitt busy-person encouraging can-do In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates. William Hazlitt arrogant vanity dull Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. William Hazlitt atmosphere giving ideas Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. William Hazlitt admiration vanity driven A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. William Hazlitt idolatry vanity choices We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's. William Hazlitt merit vanity opinion The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. William Hazlitt dread errors world The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment. William Hazlitt exercise ideas thinking General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it. William Hazlitt elude-us air philosophy People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking. William Hazlitt sake talking people A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. William Hazlitt proud doe men The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. William Hazlitt world-love forgiving simple We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment. William Hazlitt wealth cost money Learning is its own exceeding great reward. William Hazlitt learning teaching education That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. William Hazlitt teaching education long There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. William Hazlitt three nature book I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. William Hazlitt being-the-best ambition player