809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

Dandyism is a species of genius.

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

Amsterdam did not answer our expectations; it is a kind of paltry, rubbishy Venice

Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosom and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.