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William Hazlitt Quotes
«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.»
«To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.»
«The worst old age is that of the mind.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.»
«We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.»
«The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.»
«To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.»