809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

The soul of dispatch is decision.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

I am then never less alone than when alone

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.