809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Hope is the best possession.