809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

A thought must tell at once, or not at all.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.