809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

Ignorance alone makes monsters or bug-bears; our actual acquaintances are all very common-place people.

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.