Famous Quotes

Quotes by William Hazlitt

• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
• The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
• The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
• The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
• The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
• The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
• The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
• The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
• The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
• The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
• Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
• To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
• To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
• To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.