809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

An honest man is respected by all parties.